US Criminal Justice Information System

The Miami Police had all the necessary information about Uncle Bob, specifically his name, birth date, height, and weight. Moreover, they knew the dates of his offenses, trial, and punishment, although he had never been out of California until that incident. The police of Miami had the information mentioned above due to the system of fingerprints, which has remained almost unchangeable for a hundred years. Nowadays the fingerprint proof is collected and saved as data; the fingerprints are taken mostly by two prevailing practices: “capacitance scanning and optical scanning” (Foster, 2013, p. 124). These methods require immensely divergent technologies though the result in both cases is obtaining an image of a fingerprint. Despite the fact that the police officers are able to use different methods of obtaining fingerprints, they follow the standard initial procedure in either situation. The process usually starts with a police officer entering and saving essential information about the suspect, such as the name and the place of birth.