Fingerprint Identification & Comparison with Jacksonville PD Detective Compton

This week Detective Compton was our guest speaker and gave a presentation on fingerprint identification and comparison.  He demonstrated the iodine method and how to take latent prints. 

Here are a few things we learned:

* How hard people work to solve crimes and how technologically advanced we have come to solve crimes. - Mary Grace
* I learned that accidental whorl's are the rarest of fingerprint types. - Kenley
* I learned how fingerprints are obtained from crime scenes. - Alison
* I found it interesting that the first time the United States used fingerprint evidence in court was in 1911. - Bella
* I learned that loops are the most common types of fingerprints. - Zayden
* I found it interesting that arches makeup 5% of fingerprints. - McKenzie
* I learned that fingerprints are fully formed in the womb at 18 weeks. - Aubrey
* I learned that the middle of a fingerprint is called the core. - Jackson
* I learned that the ridges in your fingerprints help you grab things. - Haylie
* I learned that fingerprints have to be a 100% match to be used in court. - Isabelle