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| ADVANCE FOR RELEASE AT 10:00 A.M. EDT | Bureau of Justice Statistics |
| THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 2012 | Contact: Kara McCarthy (202) 307-1241 |
| HTTP://WWW.BJS.GOV/ | After hours: (202) 598-9320 |
NEARLY 1.2 MILLION FORENSIC REQUESTS TO PUBLICLY FUNDED CRIME LABS WERE BACKLOGGED AT YEAREND 2009, UNCHANGED FROM 2008
WASHINGTON – At the end of 2009, the nation’s publicly funded crime labs had an estimated backlog of 1.2 million requests...
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| WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2005 | Contact: Stu Smith (202) 307-0784 |
| www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs | After Hours: (301) 983-9354 |
WASHINGTON - The nation's public forensic crime labs ended 2002 with more than 500,000 backlogged requests for forensic services, compared to 290,000 requests that were backlogged at the beginning of the year, a 70 percent increase...
| ADVANCE FOR RELEASE AT 4:00 P.M. EDT | Bureau of Justice Statistics |
| TUESDAY, JULY 29, 2008 | Contact: Kara McCarthy: 202-307-1241 |
| www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs | After hours: 781-308-3696 |
CRIME LABS RECEIVED AN ESTIMATED 2.7 MILLION CASES IN 2005
WASHINGTON - Federal, state, and local forensic crime labs received evidence from an estimated 2.7 million criminal investigations during 2005, according to a report by the Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics...
