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> It doesn't seem that they will take action to prevent failures of a similar general kind occurring again. That seems to contradict this part of the article:
by Natsu 4y ago
> It doesn't seem that they will take action to prevent failures of a similar general kind occurring again.
That seems to contradict this part of the article:
> The Department has been working together with the Innocence Project and NACDL to address errors made in statements by FBI examiners regarding microscopic hair analysis in the context of testimony and laboratory reports. Such statements are no longer being made by the FBI, and the FBI is also now employing mitochondrial DNA hair analysis in addition to microscopic analysis
They're also going to do DNA analysis now, for free in many cases, instead of just looking at hair under a microscope to compare it.
- kwhitefoot 4y agoThat's taking action to prevent errors of the same kind. My, poorly expressed, point was that all forensic analysis needs to be held to a defined and agreed quality standard. And both quality assurance and quality control should be applied to such things to ensure that the standard is met.