FSN: Forensic Science News » budget crisis http://www.forensicsguy.com/benchnotes and Opinion by a Real Forensic Scientist Sat, 14 Jan 2012 14:20:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Forensic Science Meets Politics http://www.forensicsguy.com/benchnotes/forensic-0science-meets-politics/ http://www.forensicsguy.com/benchnotes/forensic-0science-meets-politics/#comments Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:57:25 +0000 Forensics Guy http://www.forensicsguy.com/benchnotes/?p=1049 Just a few weeks after the LAPD was told they couldn’t hire more DNA analysts in order to reduce their growing backlog, the city hiring committee does a 180.

LOS ANGELES—Los Angeles police have won permission to hire more DNA analysts to deal with a backlog of rape evidence that infuriated victim’s rights advocates.

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According to the GBI Headquarters in Atlanta, the Columbus Crime Lab is closing March 31, 2010. Sgt. Andy Farmer told News 3 that 19 counties will be affected. Three Georgia crime labs will be closed all together; one

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