Mayor Bloomberg Wants to Fingerprint Public Housing Residents

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg suggested during his weekly radio address Friday that fingerprinting the residents of public housing would lead to a reduction in crime. "What we really should have is fingerprinting to get in," Bloomberg said of New York City Housing Authority tenants. He went on to say:

It seems like Bloomberg is talking about biometric locks, similar to the one pictured above, where pressing down one's finger unlocks the door. But it's possible he's referring to using fingerprinting as a prerequisite for living in public housing, or even having someone on staff at public housing checking the fingerprints of random people in the building.