The police have plenty of money to spend on high tech weapons and gadgets to fight the drug war, but when it comes to actual crimes against people and property, the police look the other way and claim that they don’t have the resources.

Hundreds of thousands of rape kits, dating back decades, have gone untested by police departments across the country, but oddly they seem to have the time and resources to test all of the drugs that they confiscate.

This revelation sheds some light on the way that cases are prioritized in American police departments.

According to the Department of Justice, there are currently over 400,000 untested rape kits collecting dust in police evidence rooms nationwide, and many other estimates suggest that this number could be as high as one million.

As a result of this horrific negligence, roughly 3% of rape cases in America are actually solved, despite the fact that many rape kits have a high chance of leading to an arrest, since most rapists are career criminals who have their DNA on file.

In some cases, the victims even know who their attackers were, but they can not prosecute these criminals because the evidence has not been processed by police.

Bobbie Villareal, Executive Director of the Dallas Area Rape Crisis Center, admitted that many police departments cut corners in rape cases because testing is expensive, and the investigation requires a lot of work.

“It is about $500 to $1000, for each kit to be tested. If it’s not an active case, that cost has to be absorbed by the police department. So that’s a huge amount of money to spend. And if it’s not deemed a case that can have a viable prosecution, [testing] is put on hold. I think financial and manpower — these are investments that are going to have to start over all again. DPD is sending 250 to 300 kits in this first batch, so that’s potentially 250 to 300 cases that will have to start over all again. So that’s a lot of manpower,” Villareal said.

Many rape victims have reported trouble getting officers to pay attention to their case after the report is filed. These are not isolated incidents either, this is a systematic problem that is created by the incentives that exist in monopoly organizations. http://thefreethoughtproject.com/400000-rape-kits-untested-police-drugs-tested-time/