Fingerprints collected by the FBI and local law enforcement is loaded into the fingerprint database known as the __________________ system.
This chemical is used only on paper.
This chemical produces a white print.
This chemical to lift latent fingerprints is toxic to inhale or ingest.
Now agencies submitting fingerprints electronically for matching can expect results for criminal investigations within _________ hours.
By 1987, the FBI had 23 million criminal fingerprint cards on file, and getting a match with a fingerprint
found at a crime scene and one stored on file required manual searching. It could take as long as __________ months to find a match.
Proper evidence collection techniques involve _________________ the fingerprints before they are lifted.
Metal or ________________ powders can also be used. They are less messy than carbon-based powders.
Which chemical do you need to heat the sample in a vapor tent.
Which chemical needs UV light to see the latent print?
Which objects can leave behind traces on the skin?
In the future, technologies are currently being developed to use these physical features as identification:
Any _________________________ entering the United States through a major airport has an electronic photo of his or her fingerprints entered into the IAFIS database.
Francesca told police that her neighbor, ____________ Ramón Velásquez, had committed the crime.
He took the bloody doorpost and fingerprint samples of Pedro Velásquez (Figure 6-18) to Juan Vucetich, who in late 1891 had opened the first fingerprint bureau in South America in __________________.
When Francesca was confronted with the evidence against her, she ____________.
On the afternoon of May 30, 1997, Boston police officer __________________ was shot with his own gun in a backyard in Roxbury, Massachusetts.
With the compelling fingerprint evidence, Cowans was convicted of the shooting and sentenced to _______________ years in the state prison.
In 2004, Cowan’s defense team requested DNA testing of the glass and a ____________ dropped at the scene of the shooting.
As a result, Boston police and the _______________ County District Attorney’s office established new guidelines for identification and evidence handling.
"To get a conviction, I would rather have one good fingerprint than a pound of hair and fiber evidence." Do you agree or disagree? Support your answer(complete sentences).