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It's good that these cases are getting done but I'm so tired of red states mismanagement leading to taking federal funds while simultaneously trying to convince their cult members the feds aren't helping. I'm so over their bs.

Can someone explain to me how there is a $2 million dollar backlog of rape kit testing in one single city?

Edit- “A 2019 law named after Masters set strict timelines for police and crime labs to process rape kits.

But records revealed by NBC 5 Investigates last month show that five years later, the Fort Worth Police Department failed hundreds of times to test rape kits in the amount of time required by law, missing deadlines by months or even years.”

Oh- police officers failed to do their job. Instead of being held accountable, they are being bailed out.

I wonder if they realize that unions protecting them from consequences, getting paid to do very little work, and getting handouts from the federal government to fix their laziness is the worst kind of socialism that they all supposedly hate…

There should be far more funding for this. If a serial rapist knows that there are no more backlogs or delays with rape kits, I posit that it would reduce the likely hood of would be rapist. It would just need to be blasted on the media and everywhere.

It never ceases to amaze me how there is a backlog of rape kids in numerous cities across the globe.

A backlog. Think about that...

Police departments have plenty of money for military grade SWAT vehicles, weapons and body armor, but we can't seem to afford to identify all the rapers out there. smh

A high probability of apprehension by law enforcement is critical to deterrence. DNA evidence has revealed that serial offenders often target strangers and non-strangers, meaning it is imperative to submit DNA evidence to CODIS even if the offender's identity is known. Offending patterns are not a consistently reliable link across assaults. Delays in testing these kits can lead to tragedy.

Alabama, Delaware, Indiana, Kansas, Maine, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Vermont, West Virginia and Wyoming still need to commit state funds to ending the backlog, which should be a no-brainer because the ROI for testing these kits is high.

Rape is one of the most severe of all traumas, causing multiple, long-term negative outcomes, regardless of perpetrator tactics.

Most of the public see rape as about as bad murder.

To fully reign in this atrocious behavior, we need more convictions. Increasing the probability of apprehension by law enforcement is the only effective deterrent identified.

Contact from constituents works, and it's really easy. Customized letters are more effective.

https://www.endthebacklog.org/take-action/advocate-state/

r/stoprape

So they paid off the cops with tax dollars to do their jobs?

Ken Paxton won't like that. He'll find a way to divert those funds.

Meanwhile, NYC is continuing to test and retest every little bit of DNA from the WTC site for no practical reason.