And plenty of research has shown the police are wrong and fingerprints aren't super unique or static, that is just convenient for prosecuting cases. They are unique and static enough to differentiate between a handful of people you already have on a short suspect list in a shortish time frame usually, but once you start trying to sort populations by fingerprints or you find a random fingerprint and are trying to find some unknown person you don't know about, it falls apart and has fucked over a number innocent people.
Its like matching the make of a vehicle and their tire tracks. Yeah if you have someone you suspect, and you see he has the same tires and model of car as was reported, it likely is useful. But if you just try to blame the first person you find with the same model vehicle and the same tires despite the lack of other evidence, you are inevitably going to screw over some random innocent person. Fingerprints are less unique than someones face, and plenty of people have been thrown in jail because they merely looked like a suspect.
Its like matching the make of a vehicle and their tire tracks. Yeah if you have someone you suspect, and you see he has the same tires and model of car as was reported, it likely is useful. But if you just try to blame the first person you find with the same model vehicle and the same tires despite the lack of other evidence, you are inevitably going to screw over some random innocent person. Fingerprints are less unique than someones face, and plenty of people have been thrown in jail because they merely looked like a suspect.