FBI lab processes 600 billion fingerprint sets a day
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An underground fingerprint lab in West Virginia is the nexus point for every crime committed in the country and even for some committed overseas. The FBI's Criminal Justice Information Services building in Clarksburg houses a multi-billion-dollar computer system that processes 600 billion fingerprint sets a day, according to a CBS news reporter who visited the lab. The prints come in 24-hours-a-day from crime scenes around the country as well as from overseas, such as in Iraq where prints lifted from IED explosives are sent to CJIS to match against known terrorist suspects.
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