Abstract
When your local police arrest somebody on a minor charge, they would like to check whether that person has an outstanding warrant, possibly in another state, for a more serious crime. To check, they can send his or her fingerprints to the FBI fingerprint archive in Washington, D.C. Unfortunately, the FBI cannot compare the received fingerprints with their records rapidly enough to make an identification before the suspect must be released. A criminal wanted on a serious charge will most likely have vacated the area by the time the FBI has provided the necessary identification.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2000 Springer Science+Business Media New York
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Frazier, M.W. (2000). Prologue: Compression of the FBI Fingerprint Files. In: An Introduction to Wavelets Through Linear Algebra. Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-85570-2_1
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-85570-2_1
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-642-85572-6
Online ISBN: 978-3-642-85570-2
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive