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Forensic sciences

NCHIP 2014

2014-RU-BX-K034
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2014
$529,453

Census of Publicly Funded Forensic Crime Laboratories, 2009

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NEARLY 1.2 MILLION FORENSIC REQUESTS TO PUBLICLY FUNDED CRIME LABS WERE BACKLOGGED AT YEAREND 2009, UNCHANGED FROM 2008

WASHINGTON – At the end of 2009, the nation’s publicly funded crime labs had an estimated backlog of 1.2 million requests...