The biggest scandals are fingerprint analysis and eyewitness testimony. The New Yorker had a big article on fingerprint analysis years ago and little has improv

The biggest scandals are fingerprint analysis and eyewitness testimony. The New Yorker had a big article on fingerprint analysis years ago and little has improved. In essence, FBI and other "experts" have frequently attested to partial matches being reliable when they're pretty much subjective. Similarly, the FBI would claim matches based on far fewer points than other countries deem acceptable. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002/05/27/do-fingerprints-lie http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002/05/27/do-fingerprints... Meanwhile, the unreliability of eyewitness testimony is legion, and it falsely convicts more people than anything else. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-the-eyes-have-it/ http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-the-eyes-have-i...