Another Call to Make Crime Labs Independent

Excellent arti­cle echo­ing a com­mon theme here on Forensic Science News. Take the labs out of the police/prosecutors’ offices. Make them inde­pen­dent. Just like what the NAS report said.

Problems with crime labs fol­low a depress­ing pat­tern: a tech­ni­cian makes mis­takes or delib­er­ately fudges data. When the errors are even­tu­ally dis­cov­ered, the police and prosecutor

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