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"Only five states — Colorado, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio and Texas — require the testing of all rape kits," The story is about a rape in Illinois, and the kit wa
by DannyBee 12y ago
"Only five states — Colorado, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio and Texas — require the testing of all rape kits,"
The story is about a rape in Illinois, and the kit wasn't tested, despite it being required.
So i'm not quite sure of the relevance of this tidbit, since they go on to cite other statistics that show, essentially, "you can make whatever you want the law, it doesn't seem to help this".
IE they seem to include it to say that it's sad every state doesn't force testing, but go on to show it doesn't even seem to matter when they do!
- navait 12y agoThe rape kit was made in 1991, and the illinois law (725 ILCS 202/5) was passed in 2010. Incidents like these were the reason they passed the law. Addendum: If anything, the law actually helped solve a lot of the backlog problems: http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-12-18/news/ct-rape-kits-update-met-20131217_1_arlene-hall-dna-evidence http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-12-18/news/ct-rape-k...