Question

Discuss the advances in fingerprint evidence since Dr. King's murder in 1968.

Answer 1

At the time of the case on the ray who murdered the MLK technology become very advance in every field and forensic science is also one of them.

In a comparison of the time of the 70s, Now we are able to detect any partial fingerprints on the weapon or gun or any other object in order to find the real criminal.

Another important advancement is micro x-ray fluorescence can detect the sweat particle and match it with the collected objects from the site of the crime or places around there.

This technology is ones very important in forensic science because there is very little chance to be incorrect in comparison of prior methods.

At the time of assassin of MLK fingerprint matching, g ta uniques were not so advance because at that time. Computers were very slow and of lower capacity.

They can only detect some hundred of fingerprints from the database but due to today’s advanced technology of fingerprinting, we can match million of millions of fingerprints from a very vast database.