Fingerprints in Die Harder 2
Channel: Ray Forensics
Date: 2018-08-14

Another example of Hollywood not quite understanding how fingerprint searching works.
a) no way that 1990 fax machines capture the necessary detail
b) circling the whorls makes it worse, not better
c) a beat cop has no real control over what databases get searched or not
d) capturing just one hand is probably not enough info in 1990 to do a full search
e) the prints that he recorded are WAY too smudged to be useful