Most states already have a similar identification program when inmates are booked in. As Divemedic pointed out, NCIC has a list of “identifying marks or scars.” However, the NCIC system is text based and is difficult to search in and of itself. It is much more effective in the use of identifying a known individual.
My agency takes photos of tattoos and we use them to identify gang membership to start, and local LE will often request our photos in order to ID “John/Jane Doe’s” There is not a very good national system for ID’ing and disseminating the photos. IE: No federally funded computer algorithm to scan tattoos and solve a crime in an hour or less dependent upon commercial breaks.
October 24th, 2012 at 12:34 pm
Full circle. The tattoo returns to its original purpose.
Now, about those metal hoops through your skin…
October 24th, 2012 at 3:04 pm
They do this already, it’s called “identifying marks or scars”
October 24th, 2012 at 3:56 pm
I thought this was SOP when they were booking people.
October 25th, 2012 at 12:40 pm
Most states already have a similar identification program when inmates are booked in. As Divemedic pointed out, NCIC has a list of “identifying marks or scars.” However, the NCIC system is text based and is difficult to search in and of itself. It is much more effective in the use of identifying a known individual.
My agency takes photos of tattoos and we use them to identify gang membership to start, and local LE will often request our photos in order to ID “John/Jane Doe’s” There is not a very good national system for ID’ing and disseminating the photos. IE: No federally funded computer algorithm to scan tattoos and solve a crime in an hour or less dependent upon commercial breaks.