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Originally Posted by Digging4Truth
This is true for those who are already in the system due to a previous arrest... even on CSI & NCIS.
If they run the DNA or fingerprint and do not get a match they often say that they are not in the system and this means they have not been arrested for anything yet.
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I was of course being a bit sarcastic.
VERY few people, perp or otherwise are in any searchable DNA database yet. Also, it currently takes 4 weeks to 6 months to get results back from a search -not minutes or hours as seen on most crime shows.
Even fingerprint searches can take multiple days, not the seconds it usually takes on the computer monitor in Abby's lab.