New hope for rape kit testing advocates (BBC)

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By Taylor Kate Brown
BBC News, Washington

When Detroit prosecutors and state police toured a large storage warehouse in 2009, they made a startling discovery - more a huge cache of untested rape kits, each representing a report to the police and a lengthy hospital visit to collect evidence.

Armed with a large grant by the National Institute of Justice, prosecutors and Detroit police have now completed testing of 2,000 of those kits and are in the process of testing another 8,000.

The testing, as of October, had produced more than 750 DNA matches to a national database managed by the FBI known as Codis.

Investigations of these matches continue, but so far the Wayne County prosecutor's office - which includes Detroit - has produced warrants for 23 alleged rapists and convicted 14 of them, with three awaiting trial.

The office, run by the county's top prosecutor, Kym Worthy, has also identified 188 serial rapists from the processed kits who have committed crimes in 27 other states.
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more: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30554719




So ... we could catch thousands of violent criminals, but the main problem is "tight budgets" ? I guess Law and Order and Low Taxes are kind of mutually exclusive.

[Yavin4]

1. You never hear about budget constraints when it comes to war

Whether it's finding criminals or funding pensions, the govt is always short on cash, but if it's invading some small nation on the other side of the globe, then there's money galore.

[niyad]

2. don't forget, this is mostly about women, and you know they are of absolutely no importance.