In what might be one of the most disturbing stories about police indifference, as well as dereliction of duty, reports continue to leak about untested rape kits. It might just be every rape-victim’s worst fear: police receive the rape kit evidence from medical professionals, but instead of doing anything with them, they file them away in
Florida Police Dumped Rape Kits In Storage For Almost a Decade Without Testing Them
These kits are absolutely essential to matching DNA to suspects. Without them, convictions are often impossible, but more fundamentally, finding the culprit is impossible.