Kansas authorities have announced that they are close to completing testing on a backlog of over two thousand rape kits that had gone unprocessed for years.
"The health, well-being and vitality of Kansas depends on a zero-tolerance response to sexual violence," KBI executive officer Katie Whisman, who oversaw the effort to address the backlog of untested rape kits, said during a news conference."Together, we can overcome rape culture."
Whisman told the Associated Press that some agencies are reluctant to send in their kits for fear of overwhelming state labs, or harbored questions about consent for such processes. But Whisman says all kits should be sent in regardless of fears, because they can establish important links that might solve other cases.
When the investigation was completed in 2017 by a KBI working group, the oldest collected but untested kit was created in 1989. The group also concluded that a dearth of statewide policy and a lack of officer training in sexual assault contributed to a lack of speed in testing the kits.
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