Why is skin color not part of the legal identification system?

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I find it interesting that white, yellow, brown (sometimes appearing caramel brown or chocolate brown pending the tone), and black skin are amongst the most common colors I have noticed on humans either on TV or real-life face-to-face contact yet I find it interesting that it is not part of the legal system in identifying people when eye color and hair color are clearly marked on state identification cards. I strongly suspect the reason behind that is to avoid all the racial talk regarding skin color from the civil rights era but I don't see what is wrong with just including it with eye and hair color just recognizing it as part of the human body when trying to find missing people.
 
LOL. Skin colour is determined by a pigment in our skin called melanin. It is not something specific like DNA, there is no way to identify people via types of melanin.
 
LOL. Skin colour is determined by a pigment in our skin called melanin. It is not something specific like DNA, there is no way to identify people via types of melanin.
 
I don't know where you live, but skin colour does come under "general description" for suspects etc here in Australia. You often hear the terms "of Aboriginal appearance" or "of southern European appearance" in relation to cases.
I'm sure that if a victim described a perpetrator as Caucasian, they would be looking for white people.
As to state ID cards and driver's licenses, passports etc, they mostly have photo ID, so I suspect that any deviation from skin colour should be noticed.
 
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