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High Tech Fingerprinting for Motorists in Kansas

by Darren

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Whilst making rounds about the net, I found an article from Kansas City about how they are going to be implementing portable fingerprint machines into their police cruisers.

54 law enforcement agencies have traded the ink-and-paper fingerprinting method for biometric imaging, which electronically scans a digital image of the print. Sixty Missouri agencies use biometric scanning. Police also can scan the fingers of corpses and people they arrest to match them against prints in the system. Results are obtained in seconds instead of hours. The inked cards still used by some smaller departments are also scanned into the statewide systems.

Wireless technology is used to compare the fingerprint against the database. It also has the capability to display mug shots, and other identifying marks.

Seems sort of big brother, but I guess if you aren’t a wanted criminal you shouldn’t care (or should you?) I wonder if everyone will get fingerprinted or just some people? Hopefully we’ll hear more about how this technology changes the face of law enforcement.

Link: Kansas City News

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