Police have arrested innocent people due to faulty fingerprint analysis but have not determined how many cases were affected by such errors, police officials said. A confidential police report details ...

LOS ANGELES – Police have arrested innocent people due to faulty fingerprint analysis but have not determined how many cases were affected by such errors, police officials said. A confidential police ...

LAPD officers have arrested innocent people due to faulty fingerprint analysis - and it's still unclear how many cases are tainted by the sloppy errors, police officials said. An internal police ...

Criminals typically leave behind fingerprints at the crime scene. Forensics helps investigators analyse these fingerprints. However, fingerprints left at a crime scene are often partial, distorted and ...

The New Orleans Police Department on Friday said it did not process fingerprints collected from the body of 42-year-old overdose victim Justin Smith for more than two weeks after an analysis was ...

Fingerprint analysis by artificial intelligence could solve cold cases and overturn wrongful convictions. A new development that can identify whether prints from different fingers came from the same ...

The first big case involving fingerprint evidence in the United States was the murder trial of Thomas Jennings in Chicago in 1911. Jennings had broken into a home in the middle of the night and, when ...

MIAMI (CBSMiami) -- You've likely seen crime scene investigators working their magic, dusting charcoal carbon powder and lifting fingerprints to use in criminal investigations. Once the crime scene ...