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Posted on 09/30/2022 10:26:17 AM PDT by rktman
Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) left thousands of rape kits untested during her time as Nevada’s attorney general until Republican Adam Laxalt, who formerly held the position and is now running against her for U.S. Senate, secured millions of dollars to clear the backlog and make dozens of arrests.
Towards the end of the eight years Cortez Masto spent as Nevada’s attorney general in October 2014, a national nonprofit found that only 16 percent of the 5,231 rape kits collected in Las Vegas were examined from 2004 to 2013 — meaning roughly 4,400 were left untested, as the Washington Free Beacon first reported.
In fact, the number of untested kits reached as high as 7,500 statewide, which prompted him to promise during his 2014 campaign to “clear up the backlog.” He ended up securing $3.7 million from Nevada lawmakers to test 7,500 sexual assault evidence kits, helping him clean up the backlog, which he did by November 2018 after 7,400 kits were sent to labs.
The Free Beacon noted that some tests led to high-profile arrests, including when the police arrested a 49-year-old Las Vegas man in November 2020 for a sexual assault that a woman reported in 2012 under Cortez Masto. The kit reportedly went untested until 2018, when Laxalt helped clear the backlog.
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As a woman with the POWER to test those kits-—
IT is really a RAW DEAL against all women that she did NOT do it.
Rapists RARELY only do it ONCE. They are repeat offenders.
As an aside, one of the major problems with law enforcement labs that contribute to these long delays is that they cannot pay close to what private industry pays for a forensic biologist.
They hire and train them before they leave and go to work for private labs, make the same money (or even more), and have 1/10th of the stress.
Perhaps law enforcement should just start using private labs (some already do)..... It is probably cheaper in the long run and you get results in days instead of months (or years).
Many red states are just as far behind as blue states..... see my post above.
I am not defending Masto as much as I am trying to bring attention to a major problem throughout the nation with DNA evidence.
I know a bit about this from a friend who is quite experienced in the field.
The rape kit issue may negate the abortion issue in some women minds. They need to think about this when they go to vote.
Same as Kamala Harris in Crapifornia when she was AG.
They’re just so strong on supporting womexn. 😕🐂💩
What happened in those rape kits, stays in those rape kits.
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But A-OK for say, hypothetically, a powerful politician who LOVES the sense of power that forcing women to submit gives him, hypothetically.
Almost as much as forcing an AG to not test the rape kits...
Same here in AZ.
They have nothing to run on so this is all they have.
Oh and calling Republicans “Nazi”.
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