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DutchmanDavid  ·  4478 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: First 400 of 11,000 Detroit rape kits tested reveal 21 serial rapists

    11,000 rape kits have been found sitting on the shelves at a police annex building

How does one forget the existence of 11,000 rape kits?

Well, I'm glad they're working on them.





b_b  ·  4478 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm not sure anyone knows what happened. My guess is it was unofficial policy to not test when there was a reasonable chance that the crime wouldn't be solved. Detroit police are notoriously terrible, and they are well under funded to boot. Disgusting, yes. Surprising, no.