FORGET CSI: A Disaster Is Happening In America’s Crime Labs

“Lets keep this quiet” from NY crime lab director. More details on Albany lab’s problem with 12 workers.

 

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Media reports about 2 crime lab scandals per month.

Its all about “stealin an cheatin and liein”

Headline story from April 2014. Its about bungling in crime labs all associated with law enforcement and the criminal justice system. By Jordan Smith

From this weekend

Cheating scandal fouls NEW YORK state Police test. 

Stealing dope from the crime lab or maybe just drylabbed? Delaware

Miami

National Public Radio: 2014 “Despite Scandals, Nation’s Crime Labs Have Seen Little Change”

A compilation that is not current but shows alarming trends.  Its a combination of thefts of drugs, drylabbed (i.e. faked) lab results, incompetent or ? crime lab workers, and decades use of unvalidated forensic “science” in criminal courts.

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Dr. Michael Bowers is a long time forensic consultant in the US and international court systems.
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