Speeding Up the Wheels of Justice: How NIST Resources Can Help Crime Labs Work Faster
Unlike what you may see on TV or in the movies, forensic analysis of crime evidence takes a long time. And understaffed forensic laboratories around the country often have huge backlogs of evidence to process. The methods typically used to analyze these samples can take tens of minutes to complete, at minimum.
That may not sound like much. But multiply this by the hundreds or thousands of samples a forensic laboratory needs to analyze. This means cases take longer to prosecute, and the justice system moves more slowly than it should.
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