Texas has more than 5,000 untested rape kits

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"Texas will work tirelessly to make sure that we eliminate all rapists from the streets of Texas by aggressively going out and arresting them and prosecuting them and getting them off the streets," Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said last week.

How, advocates ask, will Texas do that when it has more than 5,000 rape kits still untested, languishing on shelves around the state? And when there have been as many as 18,000 incidents of rape in the state in a year?

Statistics from the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) show that as of August 2021, there were 5,298 untested sexual assault kits, including 1,716 kits within the DPS crime lab system and 3,582 unsubmitted kits that remain with law enforcement agencies across the state.

And that's not counting the kits that could still be untested at the 231 law enforcement agencies that did not respond to the state audit, although it is required by law.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/14/us/greg-abbott-texas-rape-kits/index.html

[Hugin]

1. If they don't test them, they never happened.

Gee, I wonder where they got that idea?

[Hugh_Lebowski]

3. Was gonna say the same. It's the IQ45 'no tests means no cases' two-step (nt)

[NCjack]

2. The governor should share his plan to catch the rapists who are not in the DNA database.