Why didn the defense spray industry that has been using UV (invisible UV) dye skin markers ever use visible dye skin markers?
The law enforcement market was the only lucrative market for decades. The defense spray industry catered to the demands of the customer. The logic was to ‘first apprehend the suspect and then prove their presence at the scene of a crime by the presence of a glow of an invisible, ultra violet, UV dye from the exposure to fluorescent light in a dark room’. The market has shifted to the mass retail consumer, the common citizen, who is well aware that too much crime goes unsolved and unreported. It’s common sense that the more difficult you make it for a criminal to escape and hide, the increased chance of capture and conviction. “Hit ’em with HOT pepper. Mark ’em with PINK dye.
