midnight textings

[cherrytrees]

The Midnight Texting Meme It's the middle of the night and you're trying to catch some z's — or brooding alone in the alleys, as one does — when your phone dings and suddenly a stranger or a friend is texting you. What could they possibly want at this hour? Is it important? Stupid? Are they drunk or maybe just needy? Do they need help hiding a body??? Pick up your phone and find out! Rules: ● Post with your character's name and canon on the subject line, indicate preferences as needed ● Tag others ● Have fun!

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👀 maybe while they were still in game or something? or maybe just she's from modern time? :3

[misteria]

[Yes, that's a ping in the middle of the night. Are you sleeping Malcolm?]

How accurate are TV shows about criminals and police chasing them?

Beeeeeeeth

[prodigalmess]

[ You know Malcolm doesn't sleep. ]

Some of the techniques and forensics that they use are accurate, but I wish we could solve cases as fast as they do on TV.

🧡💜🧡💜

[misteria]

[And she's obviously watching something on TV now that's prompting the questions and fueling insomnia]

what's accurate and what's not?
Because it's hard to believe that you can find only one set of fingerprints on a surface and immediately assign it to a killer.

[prodigalmess]

[ He's happy to come over and watch with her. ]

That's... sort of possible, though not with the speed in which it happens on TV. There is a nationwide computerized database of fingerprints called AFIS, and if you find a good set of fingerprints, you can scan and upload them to the database and look for a match. Even if the computer identifies someone though, the prints still need to be verified by an expert.

It also depends on what the fingerprints are on. A weapon? Or a door that other people unrelated to the crime could have touched as well.