Comments on: Best discloser this year

By: MikeS

MikeS — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:36:22 +0000

“but still pretty cool”

‘To advance the study and application of fingerprint
evidence and to facilitate the co-operation among
persons interested in this field of personal identification’

Might be slightly interesting (for 5 minutes)

but cool?

Not in your wildest fantasies

By: snowy

snowy — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 05:19:20 +0000

Not to be confused with the Fingerbang Society

By: Adolf Fiinkensein

Adolf Fiinkensein — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 04:55:05 +0000

Is not one Adele White the deputy chair of this board?

Have I missed something?

By: Viking2

Viking2 — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 04:11:18 +0000

Well now why would we be surpised at the FBI?
Tools of the State and Politicians and bribers.

By: wat dabney

wat dabney — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 04:06:53 +0000

Incidentally, perhaps Balko's other greatest work outside of the Frederick case is to expose the war on pain relief as part of the War on Drugs. Unbelievably, US doctors are being jailed for prescribing pain relief. Pure evil. The US Federal Government. Let's be clear: any killing of any ATF agent is legitimate. Fuckers.

By: wat dabney

wat dabney — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 03:58:41 +0000

Azeraph,

Radley Balko is a personal hero.

Before moving to Huffington he blogged here:

http://www.theagitator.com/

His work on the Ryan Frederick case is sensational.

By: Azeraph

Azeraph — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 03:53:28 +0000

I wonder if someone has an app out already, “Snap your prints and add it to the local database” Just in case you get murdered and are unidentifiable upon discovery, for your loved ones and a 6 months discount on your premium.

By: Azeraph

Azeraph — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 03:49:34 +0000

wat dabney (2,273) Says:
January 28th, 2013 at 4:34 pm

What a mess they have made of it, almost 40 years possibly? That’s just nuts man.

By: Dave Stringer

Dave Stringer — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 03:42:32 +0000

THat website link shows a society that basically stopped functioning in 2011, I wonder if anyone has told her!

By: wat dabney

wat dabney — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 03:34:23 +0000

Speaking of forensics, the always-excellent Radley Balko:

“The FBI’s crime lab was at one point reputed to be one of the most elite, well-run labs in the world. Not so much anymore. For the last year, the agency has been embroiled in a huge and growing scandal in which its crime lab technicians have been found to have vastly overstated the value and conclusiveness of forensic evidence in criminal cases. The breadth and seriousness of the problem have only come to light in the last year or so, although there have been warning signs going back to the 1990s. The number of convictions affected is in the thousands, possibly the tens of thousands.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/radley-balko/a-massive-mess-of-forensi_b_2365141.html

By: Azeraph

Azeraph — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 03:24:17 +0000

I thought facial thermal output was the uncontested champion of identification?