309_Ind3_S1

Name: Brian Bennett

Instructions: Now that your group has decided on an issue, you must demonstrate that there is a problem. You will turn in this research sheet completed with two articles attached that you showed that there is a problem

I. There is a problem in society today. That problem is: There are too many crimes today that are going unsolved because criminals do not have there fingerprints in a national database. Since your fingerprint never change if you get fingerprinted at birth then everyone would be in the system, and the police would be able to identify if you were at the crime scene or not. If we know who was in the area at the time of the crime, we can include or even exclude them from being a suspect. If we have a Nation Fingerprint Database then we would be able to close hundreds of crimes that might not have been solved otherwise.

II. Facts that demonstrate that there is a problem are: Since 1980 there has been 540274 murders in the United States and only 341945 have been solved, that is only 63% of all murders have been solved. Even though the amounts of murders have decreased since the 1990 there are still way to many deaths that are going unsolved. Across the United States a police officer books a suspect, stops a suspicious character near a crime, or pulls over a speeder, and takes his fingerprints. If someone is in a fingerprint database, police can find out almost immediately if that person has any outstanding warrants, is an armed felon, using a false name, or even considered very dangerous, because of this, police can save thousands of live each year just because of they were able to find the criminals information through their fingerprint.

(Two articles and bibliography must be attached) Bartz, Jason. “FBI Murder Statistics.” //newsnet5//. N.p., 2010. Web. 16 Feb. 2011. . Scigliano, Eric, and Eric Scigliano. “THE TIDE OF PRINTS.” //SIRS//. N.p., Jan.-Feb. 1999. Web. 16 Feb. 2011. .