Iâve never understood how this helps anyone but the police. Maybe itâs a crime deterrent knowing the cops have your prints. But for missing/abducted kids? How does it help there? Would DNA samples help too?
I have always thought that the fingerprinting kids for âteh childrenâ was a bit hinky. They use military fingerprint databases and arrest(not conviction) prints for criminal investigations, what cop would allow this collected treasure trove be discarded when the kiddies arrive at age of majority and civil rights.
I remember this from my childhood. My town was just starting to grow and experience gang and drug problems.
The justification was the same, but it was the 80âs and kidnapping FUD was a thing, so that was a probable factor as well.
In todayâs day and age of DNA and Dental identification, thereâs no excuse for this. Children are treated as the next generation of criminals.
What I donât remember is whether parental consent was involved. I have many questions on this practice if anyone is part of law enforcement.
I know after getting arrested/printed for protest in a group on several occasions I have always felt that chilling sensation, more inclined to consider what allegedly protected activities I participate in. Maybe it is also being old and having kids to worry about, but I think the feeling is stronger with my prints in a file containing who knows what other information.
Why donât we just jump straight to the radio collars/RFID implants. Thatâs what these f⌠these people want anyway. Perfect enforcement of tragically-imperfect laws.
In their defense, this will be a time-saver when being booked prior to your first railroading on a drug charge, or when IDing the body after you get shot by the copsâŚ
It never even dawned on me until now. This idea is always sold to us as helping to save kidnapped children, but it could not possibly do that, except maybe by identifying a fairly fresh corpse found hundreds of miles away. I canât remember a case like that, ever. We are always presented with the kids as victims, but whoever initially developed this idea wasnât thinking that at all.
Look on the plus side. It makes good material for SNLâŚ
http://snltranscripts.jt.org/02/02chardball.phtml
Yeah, how exactly do they think this is going to prevent kidnapping? Is kidnapping really such an extensive phenomenon or more like some irrational stranger-danger craze?
Collar? Sub-dermal or inter-ossia (or whatever âin the boneâ would translate to) is the way to go. 
Not to rain on the parade, but the cops donât keep the fingerprintsâtheyâre distributing kits,for the kids/parents to keep at home (edit) and using their mobile video, digital scanning equipment and printing to make the cds with the info and create an ID card (/edit). The fingerprinting is just a smallish part of itâpictures, descriptions, audio and a video are part of the usual kit, which could be useful for a few reasons to have for your kid, even beyond crazy-kidnap-paranoia. I agree the finger prints are the least likely to be good for anything but body id or silly rare cases of identifying a runaway that turns up 10 years laterâbut⌠again⌠the parentâs both make it and keep it --not the police). At least thatâs how it works with that particular kit everywhere else Iâve heard of it.
This was exactly my argument when I was a kid. I distinctly remember the policewoman telling me that it didnât matter what I thought because my parents had agreed for me to be fingerprinted.
When I first saw this, I could have sworn that they said that they were giving the finger-print cards to the parents to save for the implausible contingency in which they were needed, not keeping the cards themselves. This would be equally useless, but less sinister. Is it clear that theyâre keeping the cards now? If so, ugh.
Thatâs the only important point: if the parents are the sole custodians of the fingerprints, then this is a good idea (at least, if the parents have the decency to give the kids, upon reaching legal adulthood, the option of having the records destroyed). Giving this info to any government, or non-government, organization is a terrible idea.
Well, yeah, but as a minor youâre pretty much screwed â same as if your parents said you have to attend School A even thoâ you wanted to go to School B.
With explosive bolts over the jugular for perfect and swift justice.
I looked at the photographs. The police are using a fingerprint scanner connected to a laptop. That means they are COLLECTING and probably STORING fingerprints in a database.
Itâs shaped charges, you insensitive clod.
Most people donât have the ability to scan a fingerprint, or make an id card. So, yeah, they setup mobile stations to do that, and print the card/generate the cd to give to the parents. They say explicitly all over the place that their not keeping the data, for what its worth.
But, sure, they âcouldâ be lying about keeping the data and this is all a huge, secretive scheme to get fingerprints for our children. After the revelations on phone monitoring, who knows? Sounds a bit far-fetched though in this case, as the data isnât that useful considering the size and potential outrage such a back-door program would cause were it to be revealed.
