• TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    I am a millennial but never saw these. Seems like a weird choice but I’m not surprised. One time in elementary school we had cops come in and give us a talk about crime and take our fingerprints. Doesn’t seem like it should be legal to gather personal information from little kids that cannot consent to it, but they did.

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      3 hours ago

      My family were criminals - my father used to be a gangster - I cannot fathom why, but this happened at my school and I missed it so the officer was somehow invited to my home where I was fingerprinted.

      I got a curious lesson about melting finger prints on the stove element from my dad later, which I thankfully never did.