You mean the rape kits the Minneapolis police destroyed.
Even though Minnesota
recently received a $2 million federal grant to DNA test the state’s backlog of thousands of untested rape kits, a
KARE 11 investigation has found that more than
220 kits will never be tested because they’ve already been destroyed.
Or the
1700 untested kits that were found last year.
An internal review of sexual assault cases in Minneapolis turned up an estimated
1,700 untested rape kits from as far back as the 1990s — a backlog that officials say could take at least two years to clear.
The startling revelation was announced at a City Hall news conference Friday, during which department officials announced plans to hire three additional analysts to help process the forensic evidence kits.
The latest count far surpasses the 194 untested kits reported during an 2015 audit, part of what Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey called an “unjustified mistake” that left years of potential evidence sitting in police storage.
And yet people don't understand why the people of Minneapolis want to replace their police department....