December 2006
Too many specimens, too little time. Crime labs nationwide are groaning under the weight of massive backlogs, lean budgets, and staffing shortages. In the past year, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) has spent $500,000 outsourcing DNA and toxicology testing that its facilities, which perform 250,000 tests a year, could not handle. And there’s still a backlog, one that has kept law enforcement and victims’ families waiting for up to a year to get results. To address the problem, the TBI has just hired 17 laboratory technologists and is building a new lab in Knoxville.
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