Study of faulty fingerprints debunks forensic science 'zero error' claim

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Despite print examiners? zero-mistake claim, Cole points out that proficiency tests conducted since 1983 show an aggregate error rate of 0.8 percent. Though that may seem small, when multiplied by the large number of cases U.S. crime laboratories processed in 2002, it suggests there could be as many as 1,900 mistaken fingerprint matches made that year alone.

 

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..this is worrysome when you consider that all safety sensitive employees and employees requiring biometric ID submit full fingerprints and all that info is put into the FBI data base.