Tatiana Santiago FingerPrint Experiments

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Santiago 1 CHE 107 29 September Fingerprint Lab Pre and Post Questions Pre-Lab 1. You are a CSI and suspect there are fingerprints on a dark blue car door. What color fingerprint powder would you use to dust for prints? What color would you use if the car door is white. Explain your reasoning. - I would use white fingerprint powder on the dark blue car door and black fingerprint powder on the white car door. My reason for this is because whenever taking fingerprints you need a clear print; it would be difficult to get a good print if a CSI investigator can’t even see where the fingerprint is or if they are using too much powder and won’t get a clear print. Post-Lab Experiment 1 Questions: 1. Which basic patters do you have on each finger: arch, loop, or whorl? - On each finger it is whorl and double loop. 2. What was the most common type of minutiae you observed? - The most common type of minutiae I observed was ridge and endings, they were in each fingerprint and the second one was enclosures. Post-Lab Experiment 2 Questions: 1. What was the role of the skin oil in this experiment? - The role of the skin oil in this experiment was to help get a more outlined and better fingerprint.
Santiago 2 2. Discuss how easy it was to develop a print with fingerprint dust. Did it require a lot of practice? How do you think this influences the industry with respect to training and implementation? - It was not as easy as I imagined it would be, you really must be ever so light with us- ing the brush over the print and you must use the perfect amount of power to get a good fingerprint that isn’t smudged because of too much powder or too much swirling. It did require a few practices to get it as close to perfect as possible. This in- fluences the industry with respect to training and implementation because this takes so much time and effort, and it will at the end of the day help solve or push a case for- ward. 3. Why did you take a photograph of the fingerprint before lifting it? - I took a fingerprint before lifting it to show how difficult it is to see that there is a fin- gerprint until after using the power and brush. 4. List two specific examples of surfaces, other than the ones you tested, that would most likely lift quality fingerprints at a crime scene. - Two specific examples of surfaces that would most likely lift quality fingerprints at a crime scene would be on a toilet or a window 5. Why did you put on gloves before lifting each print? In this experiment, you used the same brush to dust each print. - I put the gloves on before lifting each print so that my skin oils don’t mess up the print 6. What technique would better prevent evidence contamination at an actual crime scene?
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