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PINKERTONS – private detectives in the National
Detective Agency, formed in 1850 by Allan
Pinkerton and Edward Rucker; the only
consistently competent detectives in the United
States for over 50 years.

PIRACY – a term used in reference to intellectual-
property violations; in electronic media, the act of
stealing or copying data or software and then
selling or distributing unauthorized copies.

PIRACY AND MUTINY ON THE HIGH SEAS – an act
of any person who, on the high seas, shall attack
or seize a vessel or, not being a member of its
complement nor a passenger, shall seize the whole
or part of the cargo of said vessel, its equipment,
or personal belongings of its complement or
passengers.

PISTOL – a handgun that is magazine feed.

PITCH OF RIFLING – the number in inches traveled
by the bullet to make one complete turn.

PLAIN ARCH – is a fingerprint pattern in which the
ridges enter on one side of the pattern and flow
towards the other side with a rise at the center with
not more than one of the four essential requisites
for loop pattern and with no recurving ridge, no
angular formation and no upward thrust.
Symbolized by letter “A” in the fingerprint
classification.

PLAIN WHORL – is a fingerprint pattern which there
are two deltas and in which at least one ridge
makes a turn through one complete circuit, an

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