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SEARCHA year ago, amid increasing community pressure, the department acknowledged that nearly 7,500 evidence kits from victims of those sex crimes were languishing in storage freezers without having been analyzed.
The Los Angeles Police Department has cut in half its backlog of untested DNA evidence from rapes and sexual assaults, the Los Angeles Times reports.
A year ago, amid increasing community pressure, the department acknowledged that nearly 7,500 evidence kits from victims of those sex crimes were languishing in storage freezers without having been analyzed.
In a letter, Chief William Bratton and Deputy Chief Charlie Beck, who heads a task force on the matter, said the number of untested evidence kits had fallen to 3,157. The LAPD should erase the backlog by the summer of 2011.
