Are your fingerprints on file?

[gusmahler]

I've been watching too much CSI and reading too many mysteries lately. They'll always mention AFIS, the Automated Fingerprint Identification System as a way to identify unknown persons.

But I've always wondered just how extensive the network is. One book I read said that only about 1 in 50 people have their fingerprints on file. But that book is about 10 years old, so I don't know how accurate the system is.

So for you Americans, if your fingerprints were found at a crime scene, could you be identified? Feel free to add why they'd be in the system.

For me, I've been fingerprinted twice: Department of Defense, and state bar admission.

[icepick]

[censored] no.

[Freakin]

No. I've never been fingerprinted, but have been arrested twice.

[TiK]

I used to volunteer at OPP (Orleans Parish Prisons) during college, and I had to get my fingerprints taken for that. So if I do ever commit a crime, yeah, they'd know who I am in a second. Unless of course I chew off my fingerprints beforehand...or wear gloves.

[DBSpecial]

[ QUOTE ]
No. I've never been fingerprinted, but have been arrested once.

[/ QUOTE ] <--- me

[KneeCo]

Didn't vote cause Canadian, but did get finger printed when taking the LSAT, don't know if that would be on file for cops, don't really care.

Also, you suck for watching CSI.

[kkcountry]

yes, from volunteer work w/ kids

[heater]

yep, drug felony

[Hoi Polloi]

Financial services; standard. At least they don't use ink anymore.

[Daddy Warbucks]

This job really isn't how shows like CSI make it out to be. When I first joined the force, I assumed there was semen on everything - there was some huge semen database that had every bad guy's semen in it. There isn't. That doesn't exist. It'd be nice. Like that crime scene today. If that guy had ejaculated and then punched you in the face, we'd have a real good shot at catching him.