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Most people take for granted that our justice system uses fingerprinting as a nearly infallible means of identification. Police officers, even in cities as large as Los Angeles, use live scan to send in fingerprints electronically to be compared with a national database to detect matches for criminals. Common knowledge also tells us that no two fingerprints are alike, and except in the event of scarring or skin disease, a person's fingerprint will not change in the course of his or her lifetime. But before the advent of fingerprinting as our primary means of identifying individuals, how did law enforcement label criminals? In the distant past, they did so quite literally through branding. A criminal was branded, like animals are today, with an identifying mark to let the community know that this person had committed a serious offence. In some cultures, criminals lost the offending body part - - if they hurt somebody with their bare hands, they were in danger of losing those hands. Tattoos were also a way to brand criminals, such as marking Roman soldiers to keep them from deserting. In more recent history, the law had to depend on the photographic memory of specialized agents to remember the faces of lawbreakers. Fortunately, the advent of photography greatly assisted in the documenting and recording of criminal identification, releasing police agents from having to depend so much on their memories. One man, Alphonse Bertillon, generated a body measurement system that was supposed to accurately identify individuals, but even this technique soon proved to be less than dependable. The combination of technology and experience has proven that fingerprinting is the way to go, and with live scan in Los Angeles, fingerprints can be recorded, compared, and stored electronically to ensure the right people are convicted for their crimes. live scan Los Angeles technology allows digitally scanned fingerprints and related information to be submitted electronically to the Department of Justice within a matter of minutes and allows criminal background checks to be processed usually within 72 hours. (http://www.livescan.pro)
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