 The Federal Reauthorization of DNA Funding
In 2002, I was living in London, England, when a scandal hit the front page of every major newspaper. It was a problem so significant and a scenario so unacceptable that the British Home Office called for immediate action and remediation. The scandal? Apparently, DNA analysis in the UK sometimes took as long as a month to turn around once a crime was committed. It was truly shocking and scandalous that the forensic technology universally recognized as the most effective crime fighting tool available to law enforcement was not being utilized to its fullest. To the British government and to the British people, the only acceptable course of action was a mandate to the Forensic Science Service that DNA cases be turned around within 7 to 14 days - or else.
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