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More Fingerprint Problems

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"LAPD blame faulty fingerprint analysis for erroneous accusations," is the Los Angeles Times report by Joel Rubin and Richard Winton.The Los Angeles Police Department has acknowledged in a confidential report that people have been falsely implicated in crimes because the department's fingerprint experts wrongly identified them as suspects. The 10-page internal report, obtained by The Times, highlighted two cases in which criminal defendants had charges against them dropped after problems with the fingerprint analysis were exposed. LAPD officials do not know how many other people might have been wrongly accused over the years as a result of poor fingerprint analysis and do not have the funds to pay for a comprehensive audit to find out, according to police records and interviews...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on October 17, 2008 (boomark / email).