Cartoon: Pricey conscience
Matt Davies
?There are approximately 70,000 untested rape kits -- filled with valuable DNA evidence -- just sitting on shelves in the US. Apparently that's because it's too expensive to test them. In the world's wealthiest country.
Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance Jr. has pledged up to $35 mmillion to try to clear up the backlog that goes back years, sometimes decades.
Let's hope it's the start of a welcome shift in law enforcement and prosecutorial priorities.
Matt Davies is Newsday’s Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist.
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