The massive backlog includes more than 900 unprocessed rape kits. A breakdown was blamed on a shortage of specialized staff who process DNA in the police department’s crime lab.
The Fort Worth police chief says the backlog of its rape kits in the department's crime lab must become a priority. Over 900 of those kits still need to be fully processed.Councilwoman Gyna Bivens expressed clearly her frustration at Tuesday’s Fort Worth City Council meeting."When there’s good news, when there’s bad news, we have to stand up and talk. Be transparent," she said. "So I’m very disappointed in that we have not been transparent.
"I just know that if I was a woman, and I was waiting on the results from my rape kit and whatever it showed, I would feel abandoned if that work had not been done for as long as some of these kits have been," Bivens told FOX 4.Current state law mandates, "A law enforcement agency must submit evidence to the lab for analysis no later than the 30th day after the evidence was received.
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