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NAS Report Released

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"Study Calls for Oversight of Forensics in Crime Labs," is the New York Times report by Solomon Moore.Crime laboratories around the country are grossly underfunded, lack a scientific foundation and are compromised by critical delays in analyzing physical evidence, according to a broad study of forensic techniques published Wednesday by the National Academy of Sciences, the nation?s premier scientific body. Among its many criticisms, the study counted a backlog of 359,000 requests for forensic analysis in 2005, a 24 percent increase in delays since 2002. A survey of crime laboratories found 80 percent of them to be understaffed. A new federal agency is needed to regulate these laboratories, standardize forensic techniques and pay for research, according to the report, which was financed by Congress in 2005...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 19, 2009 (boomark / email).