Further Evidence That Crime Labs Should be Independent

Here is another exam­ple of why crime labs should not be under the direct author­ity of law enforce­ment agen­cies. In this case, a crime lab sci­en­tist dis­cov­ered the cur­rent sys­tem had a prob­lem. He pro­posed a solu­tion to the prob­lem. The end result was he was fired, pos­si­bly due to the asso­ci­ated polit­i­cal fall-out.

for­mer admin­is­tra­tor at the Massachusetts State Police Crime Lab who was fired for neg­li­gence is blow­ing the whis­tle on his for­mer bosses.
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