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Nearly $80 Million Will Be Used to Finally Test Thousands of Rape Kits
Vice President Joe Biden and Attorney General Loretta Lynch were in New York Thursday to announce that the White House has awarded $41 million in new rape kit testing grants to police departments across the country, added to the $38 million in grant money that Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance already contributed. That $79 million will be used to test 70,000 backlogged rape kits across the country. Finally.
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$79m pledged to eliminate persistent rape kit backlog
Joe Biden and attorney general Loretta Lynch announce initiative to end backlog of untested sexual assault DNA kits.
Millions Earmarked to Clear 'Disturbing' Rape Kit Backlog
New effort underway to clear rape kit backlog.
Rape, suspended in time
Hoping to bring closure to victims, Las Vegas fighting to analyze thousands of backlogged rape kits that have been in storage for decades.
Metro Changes Rape Kit Policy After Finding Nearly 100 Unprocessed In Past Ten Years
There are estimates that as many as 400-thousand rape kits in the United States are gathering dust on police evidence shelves – going untested. The issue has caused outrage and led to some reforms at local, state and federal levels. We wanted to find out what the status was here. News 3 has been looking into the problem for months .
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‘Law and Order: SVU’ News 2015: USA Network’s Next Marathon Of The Addictive Cop Show Will Benefit A Good Cause
The police procedural’s next binge-offering on cable will be a call to end domestic violence and sexual assault.
How and Why We Need to Support Survivors: #TheEmptyChair and Ray Rice
In our mutual work to end domestic violence and sexual assault, it’s crucial that the starting point for our words and actions be those we work in service of: survivors.
Why Haven't 70,000 Rape Kits Been Tested for DNA?
Hundreds of thousands of rape kits that could identify serial sexual attackers are sitting untested by police departments across the country — despite promises and federal funds to clear the backlog, a new agency-by-agency count suggests.
Documents obtained exclusively by USA TODAY Media Network, an NBC News partner, uncovered more than 70,000 neglected forensic evidence kits amassed by more than 1,000 police agencies. That's just a fraction of the nation's 18,000 police departments, so the total number of untested kits is likely far higher.
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Tens of thousands of rape kits go untested across USA
A nationwide count by USA TODAY reveals abandoned rape kit evidence.
Zambuto & Prichard: Resources Needed to Test Rape Kits
Recently, the Joyful Heart Foundation announced that Jacksonville has 1,943 untested rape kits in law enforcement evidence storage facilities. Sadly, Jacksonville is not alone.
Despite the fact that DNA evidence can be an incredibly powerful tool to solve and prevent crimes, the federal government estimates that across the country there are hundreds of thousands of rape kits that have never been sent to a crime lab for testing.
