Finger prints - The Firearms Forum

17thfabn · 01-22-2007, 12:55 PM

A cop investigating a crime in St. Louis Mo., in the middle of the USA finds a finger print at the scene. From there how is that finger print compared to the tens of millions of finger prints on file? Is the system computerized?

satellite66 · 01-22-2007, 12:59 PM

Yes, its called AFIS Automated fingerprint identification system.

AFIS

Huck Finn · 01-22-2007, 06:03 PM

AFIS will compare the prints to the millions on file and narrow it down to the closest matches. The final ID on the print is made by a Finger Print Tech by hand.

17thfabn · 01-22-2007, 06:58 PM

That is truly amazing, think of the millions of finger prints they have just from service personnel! To sort through such a huge file is truly a monumental task. Can you imagine doing such a job without computers?

Huck Finn · 01-22-2007, 07:12 PM

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Originally Posted by 17thfabn

That is truly amazing, think of the millions of finger prints they have just from service personnel! To sort through such a huge file is truly a monumental task. Can you imagine doing such a job without computers?

No kidding! I think it would be impossible without them!

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17thfabn Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: North bank of the mighty Ohio River Posts: 847	Finger prints A cop investigating a crime in St. Louis Mo., in the middle of the USA finds a finger print at the scene. From there how is that finger print compared to the tens of millions of finger prints on file? Is the system computerized? __________________ "Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world!" Albert Einstein "The opportunist thinks of me and today. The statesman thinks of us and tomorrow." Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President & Five Star General. Rock and Roll forever, rap, hip hop and disco never! -->

01-22-2007, 12:59 PM	#2
satellite66 Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Central NJ Posts: 2,068	Re: Finger prints Yes, its called AFIS Automated fingerprint identification system. AFIS __________________ “Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not” — Thomas Jefferson. "The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened." - Norman Thomas, U.S. Socialist Party presidential candidate 1940, 1944 and 1948

01-22-2007, 06:03 PM	#3
Huck Finn Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 834	Re: Finger prints AFIS will compare the prints to the millions on file and narrow it down to the closest matches. The final ID on the print is made by a Finger Print Tech by hand. __________________ Tiocfaidh Ár Lá ! "Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest"

01-22-2007, 06:58 PM	#4
17thfabn Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: North bank of the mighty Ohio River Posts: 847	Re: Finger prints That is truly amazing, think of the millions of finger prints they have just from service personnel! To sort through such a huge file is truly a monumental task. Can you imagine doing such a job without computers? __________________ "Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world!" Albert Einstein "The opportunist thinks of me and today. The statesman thinks of us and tomorrow." Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President & Five Star General. Rock and Roll forever, rap, hip hop and disco never!