This article tells the AFIS story -- where it started and what it does -- while the second part, appearing in the February issue, will examine the need to share data among agencies and vendors, the ...

Los Angeles police officials said Tuesday that the number of cases with unanalyzed fingerprint evidence has more than doubled in the last two years, hampering efforts to solve thousands of burglaries, ...

Los Angeles Police Department fingerprint examiners who falsely implicated at least two people in crimes have been linked to nearly 1,000 other criminal cases that authorities say must now be reviewed ...

The first big case involving fingerprint evidence in the United States was the murder trial of Thomas Jennings in Chicago in 1911. Jennings had broken into a home in the middle of the night and, when ...

PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - Analysis of latent fingerprints left behind at crimes scenes helped close more than 150 criminal investigations by the Portland Police Bureau in 2019. Recovered prints are ...

Fingerprinting is one of the mainstays of forensic science, but despite what we see on TV and in movies, analyzing and matching latent prints is a difficult business and still the province of experts.

DENVER, Sept. 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- ROC, the only American-made multimodal biometrics and Vision AI provider, today announced industry-leading results in the latest NIST Evaluation of Latent ...

A revelation that the NYPD failed to disclose a serious error eight years ago by a leading detective in its high-profile fingerprint lab has led to calls for a top-to ...

Neurotechnology's latent fingerprint submission delivered top results in a recent NIST evaluation, demonstrating major advancements. Neurotechnology is a developer of high-precision algorithms and ...