Dallas Police hope to clear thousands of backlogged sexual assault cases after the city's recent approval of millions of dollars to speed up the process.
"I know Dallas is a major metroplex, a lot of crime and things of that nature; it is still a lot," Masters said of the backlog.
"The forensic tools here will assist in expediting the submission and testing of such kits to help investigate and solve crimes," said District 13 Dallas City Councilwoman Gay Donnell Willis. "We don't have our own lab, so we rely on the Southwest Institute of Forensic Sciences, or as we call them," Martinez said."SWIFT has been doing testings for these backlogs. But part of what affected them was the staffing, and then the coronavirus pandemic affected them as well. So, that really slowed us down from 2020, 2021. And then we started picking up speed again.
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