FINGERPRINTS TO BE CHECKED IN 6,000 PRE-1985 MURDERS.Byline: Mariel Garza Staff Writer Facing a backlog of more than 6,000 unsolved murder cases, the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Police Commission on Tuesday asked detectives with the Cold Case Homicide Unit to begin processing thousands of fingerprints Impressions or reproductions of the distinctive pattern of lines and grooves on the skin of human fingertips. Fingerprints are reproduced by pressing a person's fingertips into ink and then onto a piece of paper. untouched for 17 years. The fingerprint fingerprint, an impression of the underside of the end of a finger or thumb, used for identification because the arrangement of ridges in any fingerprint is thought to be unique and permanent with each person (no two persons having the same prints have ever been evidence, collected at murder scenes from 1931 to 1985, has never been run through an automated system that might identify suspects, detectives said. ``The murderers need to be brought to justice, and the families need to have some resolution,'' said Commissioner Rose Ochi, who requested that the department's scientific investigations unit return in two weeks with a plan for processing the fingerprints. The LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. got an automated fingerprinting system in the mid-1980s but ran only a few old cases through it. ``There was never a concerted effort go back and look at all of these cases,'' said police administrator Steve Johnson Steve Johnson is the name of:
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