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: Dispatches from the Culture Wars

Detroit Crime Lab Closed

By Ed Brayton

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The NY Times reports that the Detroit Police Department have closed down their crime lab after an audit showed an error rate as high as 10%:

The Police Department here shut down its crime laboratory on Thursday after an audit uncovered serious errors in numerous cases. The audit said sloppy work had probably resulted in wrongful convictions, and officials expect a wave of appeals in cases that the laboratory processed.

The interim mayor, Kenneth V. Cockrel Jr., and the new police chief, James Barren, ordered the laboratory closed; Mr. Cockrel called the audit's conclusions "shocking and appalling." Pending and future cases will be sent to the Michigan State Police, which operates seven laboratories.

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Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on October 05, 2008 (boomark / email).

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