Houston Leaders Want Crime Lab Out Of Police Department

Houston PD Crime Lab, an oh too com­mon topic on this web­site, is under the cross-hairs of it’s own city coun­cil. They are look­ing to yank the crime lab out of the police depart­ment because police chiefs aren’t sci­en­tists and not qual­i­fied to run a lab­o­ra­tory — good point!

The Houston Police Department’s belea­guered crime lab took

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Houston PD Crime Lab Supervisor Testifies Breath Tests Not Reliable

If mul­ti­ple police sci­en­tists and a super­vi­sor (now work­ing to over­see breath testers) don’t believe breath results are reli­able, why is the pros­e­cu­tion even mov­ing for­ward with cases?

A for­mer HPD crime lab super­vi­sor tes­ti­fied today that she and two other sci­en­tists quit because they could not trust the integrity of results from sev­eral mobile breath-testing vans.
Amanda Culbertson

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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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Houston Police Department Crime Lab Open for Business

After being closed, the Houston PD crime lab­o­ra­tory is back open. Police chief Harold Hurtt wrote an arti­cle for a local news­pa­per dis­cussing what hap­pened to cause the lab to close, and what’s hap­pened since then.

In the inter­ests of fair­ness in future report­ing, dis­tinc­tion should and must be made between past prac­tices and cur­rent practices.

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