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To: marvin smith who wrote (11620)	12/7/1998 12:54:00 PM
From: Michael Wellikoff	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 26039

Miami Herald Broward edition had a very negative article leading its local news. "Sheriff perplexed by purchase of fingerprint machines" A large lifeless machine consumes an entire corner in Broward's busy booking center at the main jail in Fort Lauderdale. The $300,00 processor records images of fingerprints. but Broward sheriff's deputies rarely use the computerized equiptment. "They can do it a lot faster by hand," explained Lt. James Wimberly, acting superintendent of Central Intake, the nerve center for Broward's 4,800-inmate jail system. Rank-and-file deputies, hurrying to process scores of suspects into jail, abandoned high tech in favor of the tried-and-true: an ink pad and paper. So why is Broward Sheriff's Office spending $1.5 million to buy five new automated fingerprint processors? "I don't know",Sheriff Ken James said Friday, "But I am going to find out." ... In interviews earlier Friday, Wimberly and Kopp explained that the fingerprint machine is unable to capture palm prints, which are often the most usable prints found at a crime scene. BSO policy is to take palm prints in addition to fingerprints. A federal court order requires that inmates be booked within six hours of arriving at the jail. But that deadline is usually broken... Central intake is jammed with people waiting to be fingerprinted and booked. It often takes 12 hours for someone to be processed, and even longer during peak periods such as Friday nights and Saturdays... With so many people to book into jail, deputies can't afford to take time to get fingerprints from the machine. "Sometimes it can take 30 minutes to an hour," Wimberly said. "Who has time for that." I don't know if this is Identix equiptment or not, i will try to find out, but it seems to me the Broward sheriff's office must be a bunch of Keystone cops. Mike