LAPD to ration fingerprint analysis to deal with backlog

- latimes.com

Each of the LAPD's 21 stations and divisions will be allowed 10 cases a month in which fingerprint evidence will be promptly analyzed. Violent crime cases are not part of the rationing plan.

A shortage of fingerprint experts at the Los Angeles Police Department has caused a large backlog of unanalyzed fingerprints, resulting in long delays to thousands of active criminal investigations.


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