309_Group_P4

Position Paper – Part Four

Name: Brian Bennett

Instructions: Please use this form as an organizer for writing your portion of your group position paper. You will be writing the conclusion to the paper. You should clearly and thoroughly summarize your group’s problem and your solution. Be persuasive and convincing in your conclusion why you believe that you have identified the best solution to your problem. Be sure to follow the MLA citation format that you used when completing your JRP. You will also complete the Annotated Bibliography – gather all sources from your issue group members and compile into one annotated bibliography

VII. Conclusion: Be sure to restate the problem and why you think your solution is the best possible course of action.

There are too many crimes today that are going unsolved because criminals do not have their fingerprints in a national database. Since 1980 there has been 540,274 murders in the United States and only 341,945 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 ways to many deaths that are going unsolved. Sadly to say, criminals are not always the only people we have to identify, we also would not be able to identify victims of the crimes if they do not have any identification on them. When victims go unidentified their family members would go on never knowing the fate of their loved ones, which could be worse psychologically in the long run. The National Fingerprint Database will is the best possible course of action because, it can tell the police 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. Not only would the National Fingerprint Database identify the criminal it could also identify the victim of the crime, if that victim had no identification on them, it would give the family the information they need to move on with their life. Will the National Fingerprint Database it will both lower the percentage of crimes that go unsolved each year, and give the families of the victims’ some closure.

VIII. Annotated Bibliography: Collect all the sources from your fellow issue group members and compile one ANNOTATED Bibliography. Bartz, Jason. “FBI Murder Statistics.” //newsnet5//. N.p., 2010. Web. 16 Feb. 2011. <[]‌generic/‌news/‌crime/‌unsolved-murders-fbi-stats>. Scigliano, Eric, and Eric Scigliano. “THE TIDE OF PRINTS.” //SIRS//. N.p., Jan.-Feb. 1999. Web. 16 Feb. 2011. <[]‌cgi-bin/‌hst-article-display?id=SIL0364-0-9276&artno=0000094371&type=ART&shfilter=U&key=Nation%20Fingerprint%20Database&title=The%20Tide%20of%20Prints&res=Y&ren=N&gov=N&lnk=N&ic=N>.