Douglas County Citizens Paying for State-wide Forensic Analysis

Is it just me, or if a lab is going to charge to ana­lyze evi­dence that isn’t col­lected within it’s juris­dic­tion, shouldn’t they charge enough to cover the costs to analyze it?

What we have in Nebraska is tan­ta­mount to foren­sic welfare.

The Douglas County crime lab is a bar­gain for law enforce­ment agen­cies through­out the region.

But it’s a

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Nebraska on the CSI Effect

Glamorization has always been my biggest com­plaint about the pop­u­lar­iza­tion of foren­sics on TV. Not that peo­ple think evi­dence can be processed in a man­ner of min­utes, with a big flash­ing “MATCH” sign on the com­puter with a pic­ture of the sus­pect, their social secu­rity num­ber, and their cur­rent loca­tion grabbed from the GPS chip

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