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Police Begin Fingerprinting on Traffic Stops 


  Synopsis: If you're ticketed by Green Bay police,
you'll get more than a fine. 
You'll get fingerprinted, too.
  Source: WBA-TV - Green Bay
  Published: January 11, 2005  
  Author: Sarah Thomsen
  
If you're ticketed by Green Bay police,
 you'll get more than a fine. 
You'll get fingerprinted, too.
 It's a new way police are cracking down on crime.

If you're caught speeding or playing your music too
loud, or other crimes 
for which you might receive a citation,
 Green Bay police officers will ask for your drivers
license and your finger.
 You'll be fingerprinted right there on the spot. 
The fingerprint appears right next to the amount of
the fine.

Police say it's meant to protect you -
- in case the person they're citing isn't who they
claim to be. 
But not everyone is sold on that explanation.

"What we've seen happen for the last couple of years
[is] increasing use of false or fraudulent
identification documents," Captain Greg Urban said.

Police say they want to prevent the identity theft
problem that Milwaukee has,
 where 13 percent of all violators give a false name.

But in Green Bay, where police say they only average
about five cases in a year, drivers we talked with
think the new policy is extreme.

"That's going too far," Ken Scherer from Oconto said.
"You look at the ID, that's what they're there for.
Either it's you or it's not. 
I don't think that's a valid excuse."

"I would feel uncomfortable but I would do it,"
 Carol Pilgrim of Green Bay said.
(Earl's Note -Women are SO Compliant)

Citizens do have the right to say no. 
"They could say no and not have to worry about getting
arrested," defense attorney Jackson Main said.
 "On the other hand, I'm like everybody else.
 When a police officer tells me to do something, 
I'm going to do it 
whether I have the right to say no or not."

That's exactly why many drivers are uneasy about the
fine print in this fingerprinting policy.

Police stress that the prints are just to make sure
you are who you claim to be 
and do not go into any kind of database; 
they simply stay on the ticket 
for future reference if the identity is challenged.

:
"And so it begins - soon any and all interactions with
government will land your biometric identifiers in
their databases. 
If they can't get a 'national ID card', 
they'll just circumvent that 
by other means and still get what they wanted.
 After all --- it's for our 'own protection'."
(Earl's Note-
Joseph Stalin would be proud of our(?) government.)



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