Published June 10, 2019 One of the many shortcomings of the forensic identification community is the fact that it appears only positive identifications are rewarded by management and the agencies they represent. In fact, I’ve never come across an [...]
Published on August 9, 2019 Fingerprint annotations, sometimes called markups, have become very important in fingerprint analysis. The days when examiners peered into a fingerprint loupe and used picks or made mental notes on what they observed before comparing [...]
Published on September 20, 2017 Live scan devices are machines that scan the fingerprints and palm prints of a person and then, in most cases, they forward the processed images to an Automated Fingerprint / Palm print Identification System [...]
Published on October 31, 2017 For the most part, fingerprint capture systems attempt to emulate the same mechanical process that was used at the turn of the century – the twentieth century. The process is extremely mechanical in nature [...]
Published on February 23, 2018 The topic of friction ridge sufficiency can be a very complex subject. Sufficiency has several applications within friction ridge science. For example, sufficiency for identification, sufficiency for elimination, sufficiency for AFIS searching and for saving [...]
Published February 8, 2018 “AFIS”, I’m sure you’ve all seen it at some point. “AFIS came back negative” or “AFIS matched latent R1 to…” or even, “AFIS reports a possible identification to…”, but what is AFIS? From the way [...]
Published January 24, 2019 It’s been almost two years since I opened my business, and in that time, I’ve helped several people with their cases. Interestingly, I’ve never seen the same issue twice. Each case had flaws that mitigated [...]
Published May 14, 2019 In Canada, friction ridge analysis reports are now commonplace when dealing with fingerprint, palm print and footprint evidence. They were born from a need to provide information to satisfy the requirement of providing, either a [...]