Washington rape kits nearly 100% processed, despite immense backlog

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Washington rape kits nearly 100% processed, despite immense backlog
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Some of the kits had been gathering dust in hospital, law enforcement and university security storage rooms since the 1980s.

“One-hundred percent have been sent to the labs, 98% have been tested, and we’ve got 86% have been reviewed,” Loftis said. The expectation is they will be fully processed by the end of the year.

“We had to increase the capacity of our systems, and that includes technology, that includes the equipment, it also includes more forensic scientists and more lab space for them to work in,” he explained.

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