How Rape Kits Debunked Junk Science Like Behavioral Profiling (www.jezebel.com)

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[-] vzq@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago

How can this happen? Doesn’t the DNA from the kids go into a database? Or do they just not run the kits? DNA processing is dirt cheap these days, so it can’t be a cost thing.

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