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Article: A police computer matches one in four fingerprints identified from a local crime scene with a juvenile
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- Honolulu Star - Bulletin
- Article date:
- June 25, 1996
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When police in Hawaii match fingerprints at a crime scene with a suspect, one of every four "hits" is a juvenile.
The result comes one year after a new law allowed juvenile finger
prints to be entered in the Automated Fingerprint Identification System, a computer data base maintained by the state attorney general's Hawaii Criminal Justice Data Center.
And it comes with only 3,874 juveniles' prints in the records, about 1.6 percent of the total 237,000 arrest files, according to a release from the attorney general.
"As we get more juvenile prints into the data base, we will be able to solve more and more property crimes," said Attorney General Margery S. Bronster.
She reported that 173 ...