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AFIS, IAFIS, & NGI: What are the pros and cons? |
Pros: highly accurate, easy to use, small storage space Cons: not 100% accurate, cannot be reset, environment can affect measurements |
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Physical and Chemical Development of Latent Fingerprints: What are the pros and cons? |
Pros: Hard print can be lifted multiple times and can be sped up with heat Cons: Clarity can be lost, not cost efficent |
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Minutiae Patterns |
Ridge ending, bifurcation, dot, island, lake, spur, bridge, double bifurcation, trifurcation, opposed bifurcations, ridge crossing, opposed bifurcation |
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Contributions of Herschel, Bertillon, Galton, and Henry to the modern study of fingerprinting |
Herschel: uses fingerprints for identification Bertillon: Biometrics researcher Galton: First to show how fingerprints could be used to identify people Henry: Created the basis for most fingerprints classification system |
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How Reliable are Fingerprinting as a means of Identification? Cute four cases where fingerprint identification put the wrong or right person in jail |
Fingerprinting is somewhat reliable to some degree but there can be a lot of human errors as well as smudging Innocent convictions: Brandon Mayfield, Richard Jackson Guilty convictions: Harry Jackson, Dennis Gunn |
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What are the Eight Fingerprint Patterns Recognized by the FBI? |
Ulnar loop Radial loop Plain arch Tented arch Whorl Double loop whorl Accidental whorl Central pocket loop whorl |
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Edward Henry’s Classification System |
Scientific filing system based on alpha-numeric fingerprint identification and cataloging |
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Biometrics and the Future of Fingerprinting |
Technical term for technology we use today |
