Looks Like Race is Skin-Deep July 21, 2007
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A victim might not care if a murderer is a smoker or a vegetarian. But having such knowledge could help police solve a case. Details like this could one day be at their fingertips if a new fingerprinting technique pans out as expected.
Standard methods for collecting fingerprints at crime scenes, which involve powders, liquids or vapors, can alter the prints and erase valuable forensic clues, including traces of chemicals that might be in the prints.
Now researchers find tape made from gelatin could enable forensics teams to chemically analyze prints gathered at crime scenes, yielding more specific information about miscreants’ diets and even possibly their gender and race.
Live Science is not with the modern zeitgeist on race. If they’re white and they commit a crime, then they’re miscreants. If they’re non-white, then they’re victims of discrimination, institutional racism, poverty, social decay, and falling in with the wrong crowd.
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