The State - News from July 22, 1988
California Atty. Gen. John K. Van de Kamp, in a report to the Legislature, praised the state’s computerized fingerprint identification system, known as Cal-ID, saying that with it, “murderers, robbers, rapists, burglars and other criminals are now commonly identified for crimes that otherwise would go unsolved.” Before Cal-ID was begun nearly three years ago, he said, law enforcement agencies were usually unable to match a person to a latent print without a list of suspects.
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