A new law extends the state’s sexual assault evidence protections to cover DNA samples. But getting justice in hundreds of cold cases will require more than just testing, survivors say.
— Read on www.propublica.org/article/maryland-moves-to-process-rape-kits-backlog
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Good for Maryland…..but: only 10-20% of all rapes are committed by strangers, and it’s those cases where DNA is the most crucial evidence. As the article states, many other cases could have been solved by good, thorough investigation, but what got in the way of that was institutional sexism and misogyny. If any other crime, say burglary or homicide, had as low a solvability rate and as high an amount of untested evidence, heads would have rolled. But not in the case of rape.
Again, Maryland wants cases solved.