{"id":13195,"date":"2013-02-20T03:00:08","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T08:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=13195"},"modified":"2013-02-20T03:00:08","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T08:00:08","slug":"csitime-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/13195","title":{"rendered":"CSI:Time Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kottke.org\/13\/02\/before-fingerprints\">Before fingerprinting<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It was essentially a criminal justice Dewey Decimal System, the first step in taking police out of the dark ages. Before Bertillion standardized measurements, police just had a jumble of descriptions and photographs with no way to organize them so they&#8217;d almost never be able to cross reference existing records when people were arrested.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fingerprinting isn&#8217;t the only technology difference in criminal investigation, of course. Much of forensic pathology dates from after this time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before fingerprinting It was essentially a criminal justice Dewey Decimal System, the first step in taking police out of the dark ages. Before Bertillion standardized measurements, police just had a jumble of descriptions and photographs with no way to organize &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/13195\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,48,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-security","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}