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Yesterday was a cathartic day for LAPD's top dog, Chief William Bratton. In the same press conference where he admitted that the department's backlog of 7,000 rape-kits is a problem, he also spoke about the leaked-to-the-press report about shoddy fingerprint analyses that led to wrong accusations. Bratton, who emphasized that no case is solely based on fingerprints, has now convened a group of experts to form a taskforce on the issue in addition to moving the Scientific Investigation Division, responsible for fingerprinting, DNA (yes, rape-kits) and ballistics, from the Support Services Bureau to the Detectives Bureau.
Chief Bratton on Fingerprint Mishaps: 'We Screwed Up'
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Begley is a raving nutball and he is dead wrong. StrokerMcgurk
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Oops my bad. That wasn't YOUR fingerprint on the gun. That was just a smudge. Let's get this guy out of jail.
What a mess. :(
He might have done better by saying "we screwed up and now we are going to correct it." The LAPD certainly cannot be this bad can it? I've met some damned good officers, but you'd never know it from all the screw-ups.