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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. A city hiring There has been a flurry of stories about the national backlog of rape kits around the country. A government report released Tuesday found that essential DNA evidence in rape cases is often never sent to crime labs for testing. But what our investigation also found is that even when police departments do send rape kits Follow-up article on the local sheriff’s department dead-set on opening their own DNA lab, instead of using a private lab until SLED can expand to meet demands. It’s interesting to point out that even after the lab is opened, has been staffed, equipment is delivered, it could still be years before case samples are 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 [Continue Reading Local police tired of waiting on DNA evidence seek their own labs...] Wow. Remember what I’ve been saying, forensic scientists are human beings, and therefor unfortunately fallible. Apparently if you work for the FBI, you get fired for being human. At a hearing Friday, attorneys revealed the FBI analyst mistakenly contaminated the evidence with some of her own DNA. She has since been fired.
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