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I need help addressing how fingerprint analysis and DNA databases have changed the legal landscape in the United States. Include the history, administration, purpose, and so forth of the two. Please include references.

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I need help addressing how fingerprint analysis and DNA databases have changed the legal landscape in the United States. Include the history, administration, purpose, and so forth of the two. Please include references.

Fingerprint analysis has been a cornerstone of global criminal law for over a century, and this is particularly true for America. For over 100 years, criminal justice courts, investigators, and others have relied upon fingerprint analysis to arrest, convict, and sentence criminals based upon fingerprint analyses. The science is predicated upon the fact that according to its proponents, no two fingerprints are alike, and many billions of ...

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