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Your fingerprints. These are different on each finger. Imagine if they only took the print from one finger - a desperate enough suspect could cut the fingertip off and make himself untracable. Or in less extreme cases, it can make identifying a suspect much harder if a record is only taken of one finger, but the police find the same suspect's other fingerprints on a piece of evidence.

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