Why Should Police Pay to Make Prosecutors’ Jobs Easier?

A follow up to the previous blog entry on Dallas County pushing costs onto law enforcement agencies.

Because of budget cuts, Dallas County Commissioners will no longer allow the DA’s office to pick up the tab for crime lab testing once prosecutors take cases.

That means if tests are needed for DNA or firearms, etc that the

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Dallas County DA Shifting Costs of Testing to Police Departments

We are seeing more and more crime laboratories charging for analysis. It makes perfect sense in a lab that serves multiple law enforcement agencies. In the case of Dallas County, like Maricopa County, law enforcement agencies can still send work the state department of public safety crime laboratories (state police crime labs) for

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