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 ...

Remember when the LA Times somehow got a confidential report about the underfunded LAPD fingerprint and how two people were wrongly accused of crimes because of sloppy work? As they are disciplined ...

A revelation that the NYPD failed to disclose a serious error eight years ago by a leading detective in its high-profile fingerprint lab has led to calls for a top-to ...

HOUSTON A random review of cases found technicians often thought fingerprints weren't good enough to provide identification when they clearly were. On Wednesday, Houston City Council discussed the ...

Add Orlando to the list of jurisdictions plagued by potential misdeeds in the crime lab. A fingerprint examiner for the Orange County, Florida, Sheriff’s Office, who worked more than 2,600 cases ...

D.C.’s long-troubled crime lab can once again test latent fingerprints, bringing an agency that was stripped of its accreditation four years ago after errors were discovered in criminal convictions ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – Forensic science and new fingerprinting technology is helping Wichita police crack dozens of cases. KSN recently got a behind the scenes look at the Wichita Police Department’s ...

A forensic scientist for Oregon State Police in under investigation after a fingerprint was matched to a database in a way that violated normal procedure, officials said. (Creative Commons/2011) BEND ...