While looking at the basic fingerprint patterns can quickly help eliminate a suspect, in order to positively match a print found at a crime scene to an individual, more is needed. Every individual, including identical twins, has a unique fingerprint due to unique ridge patterns called:

a. small details. b. ridge details.
c. minutiae. d. ridge minutiae.


c

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Indicate whether this statement is true or false.

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Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)

1. Preventing terrorism is complementary with militaristic tactics. 2. After 9/11, public opinion shifted to substantial approval for racial profiling for Arab and Muslim people. 3. Homeland security units are only useful at the federal level. 4. The police must often balance aggressive police tactics when implementing homeland security tactics with maintaining positive community relations. 5. Police today should develop programs in communities or neighborhoods that are likely to harbor terrorists.

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By the 1960s, concern with civil rights, poverty, and other social problems made a legal career highly desirable

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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__________________ are legal controversies arising out of civil law rather than criminal law

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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