How does the FBI classify fingerprints for CSI?

How does the FBI classify fingerprints for CSI?

Richard Saferstein (Former Chief Forensic Scientist) gives expert video advice on: What is 'fingerprint analysis'?; How long has fingerprinting been used in CSI?; How has fingerprinting helped in CSI? and more...

And these rich characteristics today, are searched by computers. It will be a computer that will scan a fingerprint and will identify the rich pattern present in the fingerprint and the general location. And they will then be identified and then entered into a computerized system, to be searched against a large number of candidates.