More Problems for Houston PD Crime Lab

During a re-accreditation attempt by the Houston PD crime lab with ASCLD-LAB (Association of Crime Laboratory Directors — Laboratory Accreditation Board), the exter­nal audi­tors found problems:

The depart­ment said it iden­ti­fied sev­eral prob­lems includ­ing insuf­fi­cient staffing, lack of proper super­vi­sory review, inad­e­quate qual­ity control/quality assur­ance pro­to­cols, tech­ni­cal com­pe­tence incon­sis­tent with indus­try stan­dards, insuf­fi­cient train­ing and inad­e­quate standard

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December 3rd, 2009 | Tags: ASCLD, ASCLD-LAB, fingerprints, Houston PD, latent prints, LinkedIn | Category: News Stories, Opinion | Leave a comment

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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October 6th, 2009 | Tags: backlog, DNA, Houston PD, LinkedIn | Category: News Stories, Opinion | Leave a comment

Child Molester Possibly Freed Due to Lab Screw-Up

This is the prob­lem with sit­u­a­tions where labs screw things up, like con­sum­ing all the evi­dence avail­able for analysis.

It must have been a hard call for the Judge. No one wants to see a child rapist poten­tially set free, but in this coun­try every­one is sup­posed to have their rights protected.

“This is what we had

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September 29th, 2009 | Tags: Houston PD, HPD, lab screw-up, LinkedIn | Category: News Stories, Opinion | Leave a comment
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