To get rid of fingerprints, they rub back and forth. That smudges the prints beyond recognition, or cleans them entirely. Simply touching it isn’t enough.
The point of the gloves isn’t even necessarily to keep the prints intact, it’s to ensure no new fingerprints get on the evidence. Otherwise every forensic investigation would end up with the detective as the main suspect. By the time the evidence has been fully investigated, there would likely be an extra dozen sets of prints from various people if we didn’t use gloves or bags. The prints of the criminal would be worthless by then.
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