![]() ![]() ![]() Paris was in the middle of a crime surge, and in Bertillon's view, the police's skills weren't up to snuff. In 1879, as a police clerk, he grew frustrated with the department's ad hoc methods of identifying and documenting criminals and suspects. While both his father and brother were expert statisticians, Bertillon himself was very much a black sheep.Įxpelled from the Imperial Lycée of Versailles, Bertillon spent four years in the French army before securing a low-level position in the Parisian police. 1894.īertillon was an unlikely trailblazer. ![]() ![]() Alphonse Bertillon/The Metropolitan Museum of Art Augustin Dupuis, an anarchist photographed by Alphonse Bertillon.
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