Local police tired of waiting on DNA evidence seek their own labs

So appar­ently another law enforce­ment agency is about to open it’s own crime lab — so much for peo­ple lis­ten­ing to the NAS report, and it’s rec­om­men­da­tion for get­ting crime labs out of the hands of law enforce­ment and pros­e­cu­tors to reduce insti­tu­tional bias.

The Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office is sched­uled to open its own $1 million

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Further Fallout from the Houston Crime Lab Scandal

The news that Houston Police Department has a DNA back­log is not sur­pris­ing at all. In fact it should be expected, con­sid­er­ing it was closed down for a sig­nif­i­cant period of time.

Seven years after the Houston Police Department crime lab scan­dal first broke, city offi­cials acknowl­edged this week that nearly 4,000 rape kits and other crime

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