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4. What Are Some Of The Problems With Fingerprint Identification?

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4. What Are Some Of The Problems With Fingerprint Identification?
1. What are some of the differences between crime scene investigations on TV and those that occur in real life? What are some of the similarities?
The differences between crime scene and TV is that in TV shows they automatically lead to the convicted or always reveal the truth. However there's a lot more to come into play and rarely simple. In real life it takes time to see the small things. It is 10 times more gruesome because you see the worst of what human beings are capable of. They however are the same, because it deals with information/evidence that you have to analyze to put the suspected in jail.

2.What are some of the problems with fingerprint identification?
Partial fingerprints identification can be hard, because not knowing the whole print can be misleading and given the wrong person. Their is no scientific bases that no two people have the same fingerprint or how alike they have to be to send an accused to jail.

3.Do forensic scientists make mistakes? Support your points. What implications can this have? …show more content…
They sometimes take a leap of faith to show the fingerprint match based on their experience. Yes because you have imperfect human that are trying to complete imperfect science striving for perfect drawn out conclusions. In the Mayfield case, an Oregon man who got arrested for being a “100% match” was not actually the man they needed. It turned out the fingerprint belonged to an Algerian and proved the four examiners wrong. Examiners can be influenced by unconscious bias. There’s variability whenever a human is involved in the process. Brooks was also told his bite marks matched those on the girl who was dumped into a pond. Bite mark testimony is not reliable but however it was needed in this
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