Fingerprints
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The Benefits of Fingerprinting
As fingerprinting became popular with law enforcement during the 20th century, they developed a problem. By the end of the century, there were now tens of millions of fingerprints that had been collected. Even with a good classification system, it could be difficult to match prints found at crime scene with someone who had already been fingerprinted. The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation launched the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System in 1999. A criminal search on a fingerprint can be conducted in less than two hours and a civil search can be conducted within 24 hours.
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