Samantha Bee on America's warehouses of untested rape kits

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Would testing the majority/all of them help catch how many? Examples? Dispassionate analysis? Do they need to test ones where the cops determined it was consensual, or they caught the rapist and he confessed anyway?

Kits should generally be tested even if the victim recants because the evidence may be relevant to subsequent offenses by a serial offender. Potential oportunities to use pattern evidence can be lost if kits are not routinely and promptly tested.