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Old April 22nd 18, 09:52 PM posted to rec.photo.digital
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Default WhatsApp photo drug dealer caught by 'groundbreaking' work

David_B
Fri, 20 Apr 2018 21:01:16 GMT
in rec.photo.digital, wrote:

On 20-Apr-18 9:25 PM, Savageduck wrote:
On Apr 20, 2018, David_B wrote
(in article ):

On 17-Apr-18 11:39 AM, David_B wrote:
A pioneering fingerprint technique used to convict a drugs gang
from a WhatsApp message "is the future" of how police approach
evidence to catch criminals.

An image of a man holding ecstasy tablets in his palm was found
on the mobile of someone arrested in Bridgend.

It was sent to South Wales Police's scientific support unit and
helped to secure 11 convictions.

These are believed to be the first convictions in Wales from
fingerprints taken from a photograph.

The unit's Dave Thomas described its use as "groundbreaking"
and said officers are now looking more closely at photographs
on phones seized for potential evidence.

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He said: "It is an old-fashioned technique [fingerprinting],
not new.

"Ultimately, beyond everything else, we took a phone and looked
at everything on it - we knew it had a hand with drugs on it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-43711477

Did ANYONE watch this video?


Yes.


I'm pleased. :-)

This is 'cutting edge' photography and interpretation!


No. It was just another way to obtain a partial fingerprint, and
to confirm the identity of a subject.

Fingerprint ID in forensics has been viable concept since 1853.
Charles Darwin’s cousin, Sir Francis Galton studied the use of
unique fingerprints for identification in the 1880’s.

In 1891 an Argentine police official, Juan Vucetich created the
first police fingerprint files. In Buenos Aires in 1892 a
Vucetich trainee, Inspector Eduado Alvarez made the first
criminal identification from a latent print at a crime scene.

The fingerprint branch at New Scotland Yard was established in
1901. The New York Service Commission, The NY State Prison
system, and Leavenworth Federal Penitentary started using
fingerprints in 1903.

The US Army starts using fingerprints for ID, and the US
Department of Justice forms the Bureau of Criminal
Identification, to create a centralized reference collection of
fingerprint cards in 1905. There was yet to be an FBI.

In 1910 Fredrick Brayley published the first American text book
on fingerprints; “Arrangement of Fingerprints, Identification,
and Their Uses.”

Things have moved on since then with current advanced technology,
so no, what was used in that case was not ‘cutting edge’,
just an opportunistic windfall of evidence.


I appreciate your response and for the historical insights.


You probably won't like this rebuttal concerning how reliable
fingerprints is, then...:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM1QgwaKv4s

Adam ruins everything - forensic science. It's quite educational if
you're one of those people who thinks what they see in movies and on
TV in relation to crime/crime scene investigation is accurate.

For those who already know how unreliable fingerprinting is, you may
find that section of the video a bit dull.

I personally believe that few criminals would have imagined that
the police could have identified someone from an online photograph
of a hand!


They haven't. It's junk science.




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