European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 15, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Webb snid the Story was a fabrication but slows such is this have become True because people have come to believe them to be  there in the True Story of Ranger Cap Bob Crowder who walked unarmed into a riot at a mental institution in 1955 and persuaded the Leader to end the disturbance and release the hostages. I Ess Noble was an incident in san Angelo involving n Ranger named Johnny Klevenhagen and a county sheriff named c v. Kern presumably displeased with the outcome of a 1950 murder trial they attacked renowned Houston lawyer Percy Foreman and knocked him to the floor. The officers paid s5 lines. Klevenhagen later tracked Down a Man who had shot a Deputy sheriff. His report was typical of Ranger Brevity. Searched on foot horseback and in cars. Afler 275 hours located subject in Segua River Bottom. Subject resisted and fired on Ranger. Subject was  enforcement of prohibition and gambling Laws eroded Ranger popularity in the 1920s and 1930s, an Era of Oil gushers and Boom towns overflowing with As one former Ranger said every class of people you can think of gamblers pimps prostitutes killers and  the rangers gave Chase invading such Oil Patch sin Mills As Kilgore. Mexia Ranger Borger and Burkburnett. Goaded by complaints that the rangers were infringing on local authority the legislature created the Texas department of Public safety in 1935. Combining the rangers with the Texas Highway patrol. The image however remained intact. The Ranger image is based on performance and it s not a false  Jim Adams the Dps director since 1980. Told a visitor to his Austin office. Adams said the modern Ranger has discarded the flamboyance and High profile of his storybook predecessors while retaining their courage and tenacity. They re not supermen he said but they Are exceptional investigators. Intelligent Well trained Well equipped disciplined and  the one Ranger one riot philosophy has died. Today in Law enforcement nobody walks alone said Adams. The rangers Lake the risks they have to. But they re not going to take any unnecessary risks. They Don t confuse courage with  the rangers rarely enter a Case now except by invitation from local state or Federal authorities. Local authorities can Call on the Ranger service for manpower investigative expertise and technical equipment or perhaps the use of an air plane a crime lab or a fingerprint specialist. Nine rangers Are graduates of the Fri National Academy. A Ranger applicant must have a minimum of eight years of Law enforcement experience and at least two years with the Dps. Turnover is Low applications High. We Are very much an elitist Law enforcement Agency said . Deity Block 49. The senior Ranger Captain. He sees no need to expand because if you get too Large you lose your  night stalker suspect Richard Ramirez being taken into custody. Computers help catch criminals by Steve Brewer associated press w Hen police recently identified Richard Ramirez As the prime suspect in Theca Ornia night stalker murders the hero of the Story was a  the computer police were Able to match a fingerprint found on a stolen car. Matching tiny Daia from fingerprints found at crime scenes to prints on file the japanese made system can do in minutes what might take a human analyst months or even years to do by hand. It s a tool computer consultant Tom Ruggles says which can find a Needle in a  the system is in use in Tokyo Alaska and California where the legislature recently approved a Bill that would provide local police jurisdictions with Remote terminals connected to the Central computer in Sacramento. In the night stalker Case fingerprints were taken from a car spotted at the scene of an aug. 25 shooting linked to the stalker and flown from los Angeles to Sacramento to be checked by the new California department of Justice computer. Ii was the computer s first Case. In 14 minutes it spit out the names of Ramirez and live others Ullh similar fingerprint patterns. Ramirez s name was at the top of the list. Ramirez 25, was charged in los Angeles with 68 felony counts including 14 murders and five attempted murders As Well As various robberies rapes and kidnappings. He has been held without bail since his aug. 31 arrest. Since installing a computer like Sacramento s 19 months ago san Francisco police have tripled the number of identifications according to sgt. Bob Dagitz. With this computer we have been Able to identify perpetrators that would have never been caught under the old system said Dagitz a 27-year police Veteran and head of the department s crime scene investigations  cases where investigators have no suspects to narrow the Field and must rely solely on fingerprints Dagitz said the computer has made almost As Many identifications in a month As human analysts previously made in a year. Investigators used to identify fingerprint trails like whorls Arches and loops to narrow the Field then dug through files one at a time comparing prints to Nake an identification. Dagitz once calculated that one person working eight hours a Day would take 33 years to manually compare a single fingerprint to the More than 300,000 i cards the department has on file. With the computer it would Lake maybe an  he said. The department s computer consists of n in Jet uni Render and video screens where investigators can in .1 close look ill the ridge1 that lorm the Finger annl Patter Dagitz and other investigators pm inc a photograph o .1 tracing of a fingerprint in the Rcv Ider whih relays the pattern into the computer s memory the analyst can touch up impede Lions in iht1 reproduction in the video screen and have the c on Puu a reduce or enlarge portions of the Imago. With red dots the machine Marks the  Points that distinguish a fingerprint from any other. Ihnn links the dots together. The investigator then enters any information known about the person to whom the fingerprint belongs Fox. Race and approximate age. The search takes anywhere from one minute to Over an hour depending on How much information you give  Dagitz said. You always get a candidates list  the computer scores the candidates by How Many minutiae Points coincide. The investigator can Tell from the scores whether the fingerprint matches any on the list. It still takes a human Check to make an absolute  Dagitz said. With the Lytten fingerprints taken from people Arres de for the first time automatically Are checked against the file of latent prints lifted from crime scenes. The method sometimes uncovers suspects on cases that had remained unsolved for years. Dagitz said a glue sniffer recently jailed for his own Protection was fingerprinted and the computer showed that his prints were found at the site of a homicide several years ago. The Case is under investigation. In another Case Dagitz said a latent fingerprint from a burglary scene was run through the computer and matched to a Man who eventually confessed to commuting 25 burglaries in recent years. The new computer in Sacramento works in a similar Way and was made by the same company. Nippon electronics co. Of Tokyo. It contains the fingerprints of about 1.7 million people. Ruggles said the Remote terminals the legislative Bill would provide will allow local jurisdictions to tap into those files. His firm did equipment studies Lor both systems. The Bill introduced by California stale sen. John Forand san Francisco sets aside $7 million and outlines a master plan Lor the network s first 18 months. The $7 million would be used to pay 70 percent of the Cost of terminals connected to the $22 million Sacramento computer during that period. The remaining 30 percent up to $2 million for major cities would be paid by the local police departments. Tuesday october 15, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 17