50 years. Disgusting. And they’re far from the only state.
We’ve had a severe backlog here in Texas, too. It’s awful how widespread this is.
This, to me, is the worst part of the article. About a multiple rapist who was identified recently through this program. Not because of his DNA, because of a fingerprint. You know, the thing we’ve been able to connect criminals to for over a century.
The technology to find Shipe had been around for decades; the difference that led to him to be found now was staffing the effort with a cold-case detective, paid for with funds from the reform effort.
All they had to do was hire one detective and a violent serial rapist was caught nearly 50 years after he may have started.
Hey now, don’t be too hard on The System. It’s not like they were doing nothing all day while these unsolved violent crimes piled up! Those Brave Boys in Blue have been hard at work putting teenagers in prison and destroying their futures over petty drug charges this whole time. There just simply isn’t enough manpower to ruin the lives of our youth and solve actual crimes at the same time! We gotta pick one or the other, and we picked one.
Didn’t Texas say they would eliminate all rapes in Texas?
It’s like Trump’s comment If we stop testing for COVID we’d have fewer cases.
“on track” is a poor choice of terms. “catching up to” maybe.
Sounds like a cog is loose in the Orphan Crushing Machine.
