It's all in the palm.

• Position: Crime - Police use palm prints - Brief Article

For more than a century, the fingerprint has been the quintessential piece of crime scene evidence. But, aided by new technology, police departments are turning to another source of distinctively patterned skin: the palm. Police say at least 30 percent of the prints lifted from crime scenes--from gun grips, steering wheels, and window panes--are of palms, not fingers. New York City's police department, using computer scanners instead of ink pads, has created a searchable database of 100,000 palm prints. About 30 other departments, including those in Miami, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and...