How You Can Help
Tell your friends, fund the processing of a rape kit, or give a more generous gift as a sponsor.
Tell your friends, fund the processing of a rape kit, or give a more generous gift as a sponsor.
One way to eliminate the backlog is through private funding. While the LAPD received $3 million in government funding, an additional $4 million is needed.
Private funding will enable outside laboratories to analyze the kits and ensure that the information they contain is entered on CODIS. CODIS is a computer software program that operates local, state and national databases of DNA profiles from convicted offenders, unsolved crime scene evidence, and missing persons. CODIS enables sate, local, and national law enforcement crime laboratories to compare DNA profiles electronically, thereby linking serial crimes to each other, and identifying suspects by matching DNA profiles from crime scenes with profiles from convicted offenders. The success of CODIS is demonstrated by the thousands of matches that have linked serial cases to each other. And cases that have been solved by matching crime scene evidence to known convicted offenders.
You’ve seen it on television. What’s true is that DNA is a valuable tool for law enforcement, helpful in current crimes and in backlogs and cold cases. The LAPD estimates that the current backlog could create investigative leads in over 1,300 cases when uploaded into CODIS.
Private funding will enable outside laboratories to analyze the kits and ensure that the information they contain is entered on CODIS. CODIS is a computer software program that operates local, state and national databases of DNA profiles from convicted offenders, unsolved crime scene evidence, and missing persons. CODIS enables sate, local, and national law enforcement crime laboratories to compare DNA profiles electronically, thereby linking serial crimes to each other, and identifying suspects by matching DNA profiles from crime scenes with profiles from convicted offenders. The success of CODIS is demonstrated by the thousands of matches that have linked serial cases to each other. And cases that have been solved by matching crime scene evidence to known convicted offenders.
You’ve seen it on television. What’s true is that DNA is a valuable tool for law enforcement, helpful in current crimes and in backlogs and cold cases. The LAPD estimates that the current backlog could create investigative leads in over 1,300 cases when uploaded into CODIS.