That would be the wrong approach. First big problem is that cops or anyone else can wear gloves. Second, you aren’t really trying to prove who owned the drugs. You would be interested in proving that the space in which the drugs were found previously did not contain the drugs before the cops “found” them. That’s why bodycams are super important. Most evidence tampering cases boil down to “spot was clearly empty before cop mysteriously produces drugs from the same spot”

i think with fingerprinting, it provides evidence that someone touched something, not that someone did not touch it

If a police officer is planting drugs, what makes you think the department they’re a part of would take the suspect’s complaint seriously and/or not just mess up/deny the fingerprint identification process?

or saying it was someone elses.

most countries’ drug laws don’t have a mens rea requirement – if the drugs are in your pocket, in your home, in your car, then they are legally your drugs

Fingerprints are fake science and not really admissible in court these days. You actually do share your fingerprint with other humans, at least on the scales we can measure it, and thus it’s unreliable. The only reason it works for phones/etc is that a 1 in 50,000 false positive rate is “good enough”.

https://www.bu.edu/sjmag/scimag2005/opinion/fingerprints.htm#:~:text=Critics like Simon Cole%2C a,a troubling pattern of errors.

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