the cops literally did this to my class when we went on a field trip to the police station
Yeah they set up in the cafeteria and made it some cool fucking thing we're doing today. what an awful memory to look back on
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Oh fuck you know what I never thought about. I think I got fingerprinted for some "in case you get kidnapped" service too, very cool thank you parents
Cmon belt sander
Same. Mine was a fingerprinting kiosk they set up at my mall.
What a fucking joke. They have so many cases and untested evidence that just goes bad.
It was all just to normalize a growing police state.
Yeah, I wonder where that data is now. Company probably sold it all, whether or not they still exist. I'm positive there was no "you can't do anything with my toddler's biometric data" clause included in whatever contract given it was drawn up in the late 80s or early 90s lol love that
yes they came to my school to do it rather than us go to the station but yes. I was told that low income kids of color (me) growing up in the big bad city were at risk of having little identification or something and that if we ever got kidnapped we need to be easily found hence the finger printing. we were all 9/10/11
Then they will look for the person who wasn't fingerprinted from your class.
Not by the police.
We took our own fingerprints with pencil lead and clear tape as part of a science lesson.
Yeah we did that too. I'm not sure what the lesson there was other than fingers have prints which I think would be pretty clear from looking at them. Guess you gotta make a class out of it somehow.
yup. we got to go on a "field trip" to the police station and thought it was so fun like finger painting. we were 5.
They came in and tried to sell us on a Anti-Child Abduction service called SafeStay (something dumb like that anyway)
It basically meant that you got a photo ID and fingerprinted so that they had a database in case someone van-snatched you, they could pretend like they were actually doing something
Suffice to say, my parents didn't fall for it and I never got abducted
How are your fingerprints going to help find you if you're abducted anyway?
You know, if they find your headless corpse they can compare the fingerprints to determine identity!
Not in elementary school itself, but when I was around that age my parents brought me to get my fingerprints taken at a McDonald's.
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mcdonalds
edit: police state free with purchase of small fry (only at participating locations)
they did that dumbass identikid bullshit at my school but I for some reason remember them charging for it, so thankfully my young ass was like "why would i ask my parents for $10 to buy an id for myself when I could ask them to take me to blockbuster instead"
everyone listen to Ashes Ashes episode 24, Suspect Science. Great leftist podcast that has an episode on how junk forensic science is. https://open.spotify.com/episode/0cCXyAYXxyRGEU5ZdomWW5?si=86jaJU2gSMaqedAafjV77w&utm_source=copy-link
fingerprints start at 11:40, continues to until 18 minute mark
Citations needed also has an episode on it. I remember distinctly the guest pointing out that fingerprint identification was a method developed by a eugenicist and that there’s no factual proof behind the claim that everyone has a unique fingerprint
Oh yeah, i got fingerprinted in the early 90s as part of some child id thing that looking back was probably there for the off chance any of us were murdered and couldnt be identified.
JonBenet wouldve just happened if i’m not mistaken
Sounds about right. But I think they marketed it as on being kidnapped, otherwise, I don't think many parents would've been as enthusiastic.
No but when I was 11 the police came to my school and showed me how to use a baton. Pretty useful tbh, I might acquire a baton for myself
how to use a baton
"Okay, kids - look at this! I'm about to crack this walnut."
goddamnit, you just made me remember, they did get me in 6th grade
