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Posted on 09/24/2008 6:24:26 PM PDT by Huntress
Johnson County deputies have acquired a new crimefighting tool: a device that quickly tells them —right during a traffic stop — whether someone is lying about who they are.
The sheriff’s department is among the first agencies in Kansas and the metropolitan area to test a portable machine that identifies fingerprints in the field, deputies said. The Kansas Bureau of Investigation recently gave five units to the department for testing, said sheriff’s spokesman Tom Erickson.
(Excerpt) Read more at kansascity.com ...
“The regular person on a traffic stop with a driver’s license is not going to have to worry about this,” Erickson said.
Nice. Next, we'll need a national fingerprint database for everyone so that the government can distinguish us law-abiding citizens from the riff-raff.
Ping!
One already exists and those of us that have ever served in the military or worked at an airport and held sensitive clearances or in numerous other fields have prints on file.
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