attorneys with the legal aid society which represents new york city juveniles questioned the n.y.p.d. on whether they were reporting fingerprints after one of its clients was arrested in 2014 based on prints that should have been tossed out about a year later the n.y.p.d. denied it was retaining juvenile fingerprints even if you don't consider the long term implications for the civil rights of black and brown children just admitting that you held on to a repository of little kids fingerprints sounds bad on its face. i mean by then a police officer is only a few degrees away from keeping locks of hair logging toenails or staking out maternity wards to steal footprints of newborns. but it wasn't until march 2017 that the n.y.p.d. admitted they finally got rid of $5000.00 juvenile fingerprints which is alarming when the legal aid societies director told spectrum news the n.y.p.d. has fingerprint database of juveniles included children who were never even prosecuted children whose cases may have been dismissed or they may have been acquitted you can't keep people around just to wait and s