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Backlogs were discovered across the country; it was estimated that up to 400,000 kits had not been analysed. Police departments claimed they could not afford the processing, but as Kennedy points out, this doesn’t ring true: from 1977 to 2020, state and local law-enforcement budgets nationwide almost tripled.
Backlogs were discovered across the country; it was estimated that up to 400,000 kits had not been analysed. Police departments claimed they could not afford the processing, but as Kennedy points out, this doesn’t ring true: from 1977 to 2020, state and local law-enforcement budgets nationwide almost tripled.
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Why would you put someone through this very invasive, whole-body exam, which is traumatising in itself, take their rape kit and just let it sit there?’ Natasha Alexenko, an activist whose own kit went untested for a decade, asked.
Eventually, the government announced $41 million in federal grants to help reduce the backlog, which states supplemented with their own funding. As tests were processed, cold cases were solved and serial attackers identified. The resulting data overturned long-held profiling beliefs: that serial rapists are rare; that each predator has a distinct modus operandi; that offenders are either ‘stranger’ or ‘acquaintance’ rapists. The data showed that serial rapists are not uncommon and that they are opportunists, attacking strangers, relatives and acquaintances alike. A victim who knows her assailant and who volunteers for testing may well hold the key to catching a serial offender.
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The secret History of the Rape Kit https://www.lrb.co.uk/the...
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