I
watch a fair number shows of the "Unsolved Murder" genre, mostly
on ID DISCOVERY. Where some newby
detective is handed boxes of crime scene evidence from a 20 year-old
unsolved homicide, and tasked with solving it. The
crimes are invariably solved when the detective realizes that this
stuff
was collected before DNA
was invented, but now it has, so he sends it for analysis. The
perp, now living in Florida with his wife and 6 children, is
arrested.
Which begs the question: Why
doesn't every police department in the USofA go through old case files and, just for the hell of it, send blood, semen, spit samples to
the
crime lab? Like, right now? Duh.
Thank you. I await my Nobel Prize.
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$$$ and, from what I read, a huge backlog at the labs.
ReplyDeleteSo, in other words, government?
ReplyDeleteTim
Sounds like there could be thousands of new jobs in the DNA analysis field. It's all done by machines, so I wonder how much training a tech needs? And what it pays? $23/hr to use a pipette and a petri dish while sitting down all day would be an appealing job to a lot of folks.
ReplyDeleteDon't laugh - look at the explosive growth of surgical centers in the past decade. They're making money hand over fist.
Too busy fighting for their lives and reputations brought on by Obama's distraction army, BLM.
ReplyDeleteToo many police departments are used to make money by civil forfeiture and traffic traps for the town or city. They won't do anything that costs money like solving violent crimes, that's dangerous and could get the brother in law hurt. The push for more administrative laws that people will break and can be fined and or arrested for.
ReplyDeleteYou commenters are soooo cynical.
ReplyDeleteand right.