Any forensic photo specialists?

Stargazer · Apr 24, 2008

You might want to try this and see if he has any priors

Offender Tracking Information System (OTIS)

Pat R

Egon · Apr 24, 2008

You must remember that you have a photo.

So what type of backup do you have that a crime was committed.

Your word is really worthless unless there is other very obvious evidence That the picture taken was involved in a crime.

jsboening · Apr 24, 2008

I'm hoping that the word of an honest man with a clean record is still worth something in this country. I didn't do this for any kind of recognition just a reaction to seeing something suspicious. Whether it pans out or not, I can go to bed knowing I tried to do the right thing (Help a neighbor and friend). Maybe someday someone will do it for me.

Egon · Apr 25, 2008

Please, there is no doubting your observations, but when it comes to court and proving the allegations it becomes another matter altogether.

Your actions are commendable and if everyone followed those in their community it may make the communities better places to live as miscreants soon learn where not to go.

john_bud · Apr 25, 2008

jsboening said:
**UPDATE**

The license plate number must have been correct because that was the guy I saw. How else would the get him??

Maybe they only have 6 criminals in your state?

jb

randy41 · Apr 25, 2008

so what happened at the neighbors?

Z-Michigan · Apr 25, 2008

john_bud said:
Maybe they only have 6 criminals in your state?

jb

Yeah, I wish. Perhaps our super-high incarceration rate is worth something... or not.

Kudos to js for all his efforts.

Iplayfarmer · Apr 25, 2008

Egon said:
You must remember that you have a photo.

So what type of backup do you have that a crime was committed.

Your word is really worthless unless there is other very obvious evidence That the picture taken was involved in a crime.

The first step in the process is the "interview" with the guy id'd in the photo. To him, the photo is a lot of evidence against him. It may be a similar scenario to the guy with the pens in his pocket. Hopefully this is the trigger that gets him to spill the beans.

I had a friend a while back who was a narc agent. I was amazed and just how little he had to do to keep his cover. He explained to me that if these guys were smart they wouldn't get into crime in the first place.