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Police Depts don’t test rape kits. Private labs that are contracted by the state do. And like any other govt contractor, labs with that lowest bid win the contract- not the best. And, how many labs like that do you think there are in TX? 2? 20? 200? In a state of roughly 30 million with few hundred thousand violent crimes each year, that many labs isn’t nearly enough. And, these labs aren’t immune to labor shortages either. And, it still costs money from the individual Dept.
So you have a perfect storm (a bad storm) of sorts — where you have a few labs, poorly equipped, poorly staffed, processing lab work for hundreds of thousands of crimes.
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