Adding a element of quantitative analysis to fingerprint identification is positive progress for forensic science, which struggles, overall, to live up to the “science” side of its name.

Fingerprint Analysis Is High-Stakes Work — but It Doesn’t Take Much to Qualify as an Expert . One wrong fingerprint match could send an innocent person to prison or see a killer go free.

The Orange County Sheriff's Office is investigating a fingerprint analyst who may have mishandled nearly 1,000 criminal cases. Robert Lowe reports.

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For years fingerprinting has been viewed by the public as a practically infallible crime-fighting tool with accuracy rates approaching 100 percent. But revelations like those in the Houston Police ...