Is there any chance that my fingerprints had been taken at a crime scene and put into the national database while I am 100% innocent?
2007-07-16 07:44:18 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
Well, all finger prints are now entered into the AFIS system. (USA). So, if they were ever lifted at a scene and unidentified... if you get printed later and they find a match, you might get questioned.
Prints alone does not make a case. They would need to have more evidence then a print to arrest you.
2007-07-16 07:50:35 · answer #1 · answered by Dog Lover 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
You misunderstand the way it works. You must first submit to fingerprinting and sign or verify that they are yours. Then they are submitted to the database. A finger print at a crime scene with nothing to match it to does nothing. If you have not been officially fingerprinted, it wouldn't be in the database. However, they can obtain your fingerprint on a glass or other way and compare it to the one at the scene.
2007-07-16 07:50:00 · answer #2 · answered by Witch Hazel 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't really know if prints lifted from a crime scene and either not identified, or not belonging to the criminal, are entered into a database.
I do know that many things will put your prints into a database, such as military service, working for the government, and such. When law enforcement can't find their person in a criminal database, then check other databases.
It's not the same as having a police record, to be included in a database of prints. Mine are in a database. Should I let 'em know I got rid of the wart?
2007-07-16 07:49:14 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes, everybody has a police record if they've been fingerprinted, had spit sample, etc. I think you mean criminal record. No, you do not have a criminal record as long as you are not proved guilty of committing the crime that was committed at that crime scene. You currently only have a police record.
2007-07-16 07:55:21 · answer #4 · answered by ~aShLeY~ 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sure, for example if you get arrested by the campus police at your college you may not get handed over to the local PD... even though the campus police will take your prints, the information will be passed along to the PD and you will end up in regular criminal court if you did something that warants it. Of course you will have a record in cases like these.
2007-07-16 07:50:20 · answer #5 · answered by Sammy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You must be fingerprinted with ink on your fingers and then having them rolled onto paper.
If you have never been printed,then no one has your prints.Lifted prints from a crime scene are only worth so much.
2007-07-16 07:49:35 · answer #6 · answered by Den 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Were they identified as yours?
Just because someones fingerprints are AFIS doesn't mean they are guilty.
However that is not a police record. It just means at some point you were fingerprinted and your prints are in AFIS
2007-07-16 07:51:30 · answer #7 · answered by ♥♥The Queen Has Spoken♥♥ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Even if your fingerprints are in the database, that doesn't mean you have a criminal record.
2007-07-16 07:52:35 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you were at a crime scene...then sure. If you never been printed then the authorities have nothing to compare your prints they lifted to.
2007-07-16 07:49:58 · answer #9 · answered by LEO53 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
any negative contact with law enforcement is documented
also try reading Animal Farm by George Orwell
2007-07-16 07:48:25 · answer #10 · answered by mr. r 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋