Re:Police claims to have fingerprinted computer based on pri...
by _jal on Friday May 13, 2022 @12:35PM
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That seems to be the norm with a lot of, um, creative criminal forensics.
Bite mark identification was used forever until blown up by particularly shameless grifting, and has never been shown to work as practiced. [1]
Tennessee still uses dowsing rods. [2]
Fingerprinting as practiced is a bundle of folk practice, guesses, and some science. Quality varies wildly. [3]
Fiber analysis, lie detectors, spatter analysis and many more techniques are all crap. When one bogus method is finally found legally unreliable, cops and prosecutors find a new one.
Bite mark identification was used forever until blown up by particularly shameless grifting, and has never been shown to work as practiced. [1]
Tennessee still uses dowsing rods. [2]
Fingerprinting as practiced is a bundle of folk practice, guesses, and some science. Quality varies wildly. [3]
Fiber analysis, lie detectors, spatter analysis and many more techniques are all crap. When one bogus method is finally found legally unreliable, cops and prosecutors find a new one.
[1] https://innocenceproject.olemiss.edu/radley-balko-reports-on...
[2] https://www.themarshallproject.org/2022/03/17/witching-dowsi...
[3] https://www.aaas.org/resources/latent-fingerprint-examinatio...