In a real-life version of CSI, the city’s gumshoes will soon be able to peer into the soles of suspects by using technology to track their every step at the scene of a crime, Mayor Bloomberg announced yesterday.
“One out of every seven crime scenes contains impressions from footwear which sometimes can be just as specific as a fingerprint,” the mayor said while accepting the endorsement of four police unions — detectives, captains, lieutenants and sergeants — in Foley Square.
Bloomberg said the NYPD would soon create a “footwear recognition database” capable not only of tracing specific kinds of footwear but also of analyzing the wearer’s walking pattern.
“Even if a person did throw away their shoes you could tell that by looking at their other shoes,” said Brian Mahanna, a Bloomberg campaign policy analyst.