Posted on 02/22/2019 5:52:57 AM PST by bgill
The Austin Police Department could potentially reopen dozens of rape investigations after getting the results from its backlog of 2,665 untested rape kits. About 35 percent of the rape kits tested brought back positive DNA findings, which could mean as many as 933 cases. Austin Police outsourced the DNA testing of the untested rape kits to labs in other states to help tackle the backlog. All the testing was completed in April 2018 and now that investigators have the results, they are "reopening and beginning to work cases that correspond with kits that yielded positive results," according to a City of Austin memo released Thursday...To date, APD has reviewed six of these cases for review, yielding two hits, meaning that person's DNA is in the FBI's database. Some of these cases date back to the 1990s. The backlog in Austin ballooned to more than 4,000 cases after APD shuttered its DNA crime lab in June 2016. It closed it for good after an audit found serious and longstanding problems with the lab's testing. The lab reopened in 2017 but is now overseen by the Texas Department of Public Safety, which conducts DNA testing on behalf of the city.
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They've had the results now since April but have only reviewed 6 cases. That, again, is unforgivable.
23 and me customers are in for a shock...
did you know you are a relative of a wanted rapist? Which one of your siblings is most likely to commit rape?
Just another liberal cesspool run by people so stupid it’s amazing they can draw breath.
Maybe they can swindle Ancestry DOT com into helping them find the perps.
Portland Oregon is their sister (or whatever) city.
Won’t play that dna “What am I” game. Who reads the fine print on where your dna data goes? Hopefully FReepers are not doing it (or Fascistbook).
I don’t understand, If they really wanted to make this a priority I’m sure revenue could be found somewhere, ie a grant.
Humm, they’re gonna have to change “sister” to something that’s not gender specific. Sounds like cis privilege to me. Maybe “comrade city”. Or “related by being total @#%&holes”.
How many were duplicate ? Same perpetrator ?
To be fair, that is an all too common problem around the country, from what I’ve read.
This vile left wing scheme to not test for DNA in rape kits appears to be across the USA. It was rampant during Kamala’s rule of terror while she was the California AG.
Kamala’s California DNA/ID kit scandal!
“Kamala protected a lot rapists while serving as California’s AG!”
“Unprocessed DNA/ID rape kits in California while Kamala was the state AG!”
If she had done her job as our state AG, there would not be hundreds if not thousands of DNA/ID rape Kits not processed.
Maybe some females in California and the nation can bring this scandal forward after Kamala conveniently forgot about them.
CA ‘DNA/ID’ backlog under fire Capitol Weekly | Capitol Weekly ...
capitol weekly.net/rape-kit-backlog-under-fire/
Apr 11, 2018 - Thousands of California women who said they were raped gave ... But many of the DNA/ID rape kits were not examined in a timely way, caught in a ...
No one knows how many untested DNA/ID rape kits there are in California ...
https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-rape-kits-legislation-20170525-story.html
May 26, 2017 - Assembly Bill 41 would require law enforcement agencies to report to the state how many sexual assault DNA/ID kits they collected and have examined ...
The unconscionable backlog of unprocessed rape kits in California ...
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-rape-kits-20180521-story.html
May 21, 2018 - The DNA/ID rape kit backlog is, unfortunately, not a new problem, though ... that the procedure will further the investigation, not just add to a collection of ...
Destroyed: How the trashing of DNA/ID rape kits failed victims and jeopardizes ...
www.cnn.com/interactive/2018/11/investigates/police-destroyed-rapekits/index.html
Nov 29, 2018 - Where police did not redact that information, CNN did, including the full names of ... A CNN investigation into the destruction of DNA/ID rape kits in dozens of agencies ..... of Prosecuting Attorneys and a career California prosecutor.
‘Disturbing’ DNA/ID rape kit investigation prompts action - CNN - CNN.com
https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/05/health/ DNA/ID rape-kits-destroyed-reaction.../index.html
Dec 5, 2018 - A CNN investigation prompts officials to tell police: Do not destroy rape kits.
For someone who’s taken an oath to uphold, support, and defend the Constitution throughout her professional career, 2020 Democratic presidential contender Sen. Kamala Harris tends to, in the words of constitutionalist and talk host Mark Levin, “treat it like a smorgasbord,” picking the parts she likes and ignoring the parts she doesn’t.
Like not funding to process/id maybe thousands of Rape Kits in California while serving as the state’s highest ranking law enforcement person, the state’s former AG, Kamala!
That would be good to use against her POTUS run.
“To be fair, that is an all too common problem around the country, from what I’ve read.”
Not testing/identifying DNA in rape kits in Californicator land has been standard procedure or a long time.
We can waste Billions of $’s on a high speed rail train from nowhere to basically nowhere. Yet for a long time we could not afford to check on the DNA in rape kits to identify the rapists.
“That would be good to use against her POTUS run.”
Some of us have been posting about how Kamala avoided funding the DNA tests on the thousands of unprocessed DNA Rape kits in California as our lawless state AG.
No big news group wants to investigate this scandal in California and apparently other states and cities.
who is to say authorities are not collecting dna at birth and have amassed a database already...
“They’ve had the results now since April but have only reviewed 6 cases. That, again, is unforgivable.”
Two guesses why:
1. Illegal citizens are raping a lot of women.
2. Elite Liberals are raping a lot of women.
“who is to say authorities are not collecting dna at birth and have amassed a database already...”
That has probably been done for the past decade
in our 57* states. However, not many 10 year old or under males are committing rape.
*Obama said that he had visited 57 states.
I wonder how many are sitting in prison who didn’t do it and could be cleared with this evidence? This has happened a LOT.
Illegal aliens.
Yes.
You can bet your boots the media will protect her from this.
Illegal Aliens can do no wrong in the eyes of liberal mediots, unless they wear an MAGA hat.
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