Phoenix Crime Lab Labor Relations Tension Escalates

An article in the Arizona Republic indicates the prior accusations relating to the quality of work performed at the Phoenix PD Crime Lab is more politically motivated, based on a union trying to keep a group of employees from leaving.

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A Phoenix labor-relations board is scheduled to hear testimony Wednesday from police crime-lab employees after

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Close Crime Lab to Balance Budget?

You have to feel for the Fresno County Sheriff, but there seems to be a lot of “black or white” thinking here as people posture for the political battle over the budget. Certainly closing two floors of the prison, and releasing 500 felons early, drastically laying off deputies, or closing the crime lab would

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Phoenix Police Investigate Phoenix Crime Lab

Criminal defense attorneys are going to love this.  Anytime you have a situation where evidence is mishandled, it questions the reliability of forensic test results.  Apparently the Phoenix Police Department is investigating claims that crime lab staff left evidence behind at crime scenes, and threw away fingerprint evidence.

 

PHOENIX — CBS 5 News obtained sworn affidavits

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Phoenix PD Crime Lab – Most Advanced in the Country

Apparently the Phoenix PD Crime Lab is the most advanced crime lab in the country, so says supervisor Steve O’Dell.

“This lab is one of, if not the most advanced crime labs in the country,” said Crime Scene Section Supervisor Steve O’Dell…

I personally challenge Steve O’Dell’s “most advanced crime lab in the country” to figure out

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Funding sought for DPS crime lab

The solution to the state crime lab’s budget deficit? Send the bill to speeders and drunk-drivers. There isn’t a conflict of interest in prosecutors and police scientists directly benefiting from guilty DUI verdicts, and speeding is there? Well there will be if the legislature gets it’s way.

In summary, in order to keep

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