You want a national crisis? Untested Rape Kits are a National Crisis.

**Bourbon** · 02-22-2019, 08:58 AM

The number of Violent Criminals that would get taken off the street by doing this testing would be worth a hell of a lot more than the phantom criminals crossing the border.

DNA results found in 900+ untested rape kits in Austin police backlog

The Austin Police Department could potentially reopen dozens of rape investigations after getting the results from its backlog of 2,665 untested rape kits. About 35 percent of the rape kits tested brought back positive DNA findings, which could mean as many as 933 cases.

Austin Police outsourced the DNA testing of the untested rape kits to labs in other states to help tackle the backlog. All the testing was completed in April 2018 and now that investigators have the results, they are "reopening and beginning to work cases that correspond with kits that yielded positive results," according to a City of Austin memo released Thursday.

When a rape survivor is assaulted, they are given a forensic exam called a rape kit. Once the kit is tested, if any DNA other than the victim's DNA is found, that means it yielded a positive finding. Investigators then take the DNA and review it for entry into the Combined DNA Index System, or CODIS.

https://www.kxan.com/news/local/aust...log/1801168478