<p>Next thing you know, they’ll be taking the fingrprints of every person charged with a crime and put it into a database to use to solve future crimes.</p>
<p>Oh wait, they already do that! :)</p>
<p>You know, unlike on CSI, sometimes the only evidence we have are pictures or video evidence. If having a database that identifies someone who breaks ino an ATM by their distinctive tatoo instead of by thier fingerprints (say they wore gloves) helps get this criminal off the streets, I don’t see the difference then having a fingerprint database.</p>