I fully believe that plenty of these were not tested because of bias/incompetence/whatever. With that said, I'm not sure if the idea of testing them primarily

I fully believe that plenty of these were not tested because of bias/incompetence/whatever. With that said, I'm not sure if the idea of testing them primarily for database purposes was really on the radar in the 80s-90s. Did these national databases even exist in this sort of form then? ------------------ If the answer to that question is no, then a lot of them weren't tested for understandable reasons. You have a lot of cases that fit one of the following: - The victim has decided it wasn't a rape/they don't want to pursue the case. As with domestic violence charges, there's a whole lot of these cases where the victim decides they no longer want to pursue it. And while the state can sometimes make a domestic violence case without victim cooperation, it's pretty much impossible to do so for a rape case. No one beats the shit out of themselves, so you can sometimes make a DV case stick without assistance from victim testimony/cooperation. People have sex consensually, so you mostly can't. - There is a case the victim is cooperating with, but the (accused) rapist is known and is not disputing that the intercourse occurred, just if it was consensual. Testing the "rape kit" just proves intercourse, which is not what the trial is hinging on.