LA Weekly Delves Into LAPD's Rape Kit Debacle
Christine Pelisek has an excellent story in the current issue of the LA Weekly about the story behind the thousands of untested rape-kits sitting in LAPD freezers. The backlog of untested DNA received public attention last fall after City Controller Laura Chick released a scathing report. Pelisek reveals that the Sheriff’s Department has a similar problem with untested rape kits, uncovers how the system failed so miserably, and why they may never catch up:
It’s now extremely unlikely that either LAPD or the Sheriff’s Department will resolve their DNA-backlog crisis any time soon, because their labs are overwhelmed by a never-ending stream of cases, staffed so poorly that small law-enforcement agencies using the sheriff’s lab in L.A.
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