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The mug shots were part of a broader system of measuring and comparing body parts to help police departments organize thousands of criminal records. In 1884, Bertillon's system helped Parisian ...

Meet Alphonse Bertillon, The Man Behind The Modern Mug Shot French criminologist Alphonse Bertillon wasn’t the first to introduce mug shots to police, but he standardized how they were taken and ...

They were taken by a French criminologist named Alphonse Bertillon, and his techniques set the template that police use today. Rise Of The Modern Mug Shot Wilhelm Figueroa, director of the New York ...