Does it kind of irk anyone else that they just go around contaminating all the evidence at the crime scenes and handle the bodies without wearing any gloves. Must have been how they did it back then.
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It did irk me slightly but then I remembered I'd been watching too much CSI and police movies and that's why I feel that way about the latex gloves in investigation.
I've read a few books that state that there were methods of detecting DNA evidence back in 1947 but it was so expensive and there were so few specialists in the field that police weren't even trained to bother with the precautions of non-contaminating potential evidence. Up until 1984, the use of DNA evidence in law enforcement was very rare (although there were specialists who handled documents and fingerprinting) and it wasn't even until the mid 90s that the US started to use forensic science more widely and started training their staff to avoid contaminating crime scenes.
In a book I read about Black Dahlia it stated that a main reason the specialists suspect the murderer was never captured/identified is because of the contamination of evidence that was brought on by the reporters who were stepping all over the crime scene. What little evidence there was from her body was disregarded and mishandled and can't be used (and various sources claimed there was more evidence than was revealed in reports although this varies from book to book).
Interestingly one hundred years later, it was proven by DNA that the remains under Dr. Crippen's house weren't of his wife, and therefore, he may have been innocent of that crime. It is quite jarring to think though that if the evidence from cases such as that of Jack the Ripper and Black Dahlia hadn't been mishandled, we may actually know the answers to the mystery (but then, would they hold as much interest if we did?).
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The investigative practices used in the game are actually fairly accurate for the 1940's setting.
And just so you know, latex gloves weren't invented until the 60's. DNA evidence wasn't used by police until the 80's. Blood typing was around during the 40's, but was not used extensively.
It is true that fingerprint evidence was available at the time--the FBI reached 100 million fingerprints on file in 1946--so I'm somewhat surprised this never once played a role in LA Noire.
Latex wasn't invented, but there were cloth gloves and leather gloves that were used in certain situations where prints had to be lifted, etc.
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Angelexposed saith:
Latex wasn't invented...Latex comes from a tree, dude!
Yeah, but some milk from a tree doesn't work too well as protection for hands. It needs to be processed first so that it can be made into superthin gloves. And that technique wasn't invented yet. But of course you knew that already, right?
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yeah i did cringe especially when he was touching the morphine needles.. O_o
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