Five years ago, 11,000 rape kits were discovered abandoned in a Detroit police warehouse. That discovery sparked outrage.
Since then, only about 2,000 of the kits have undergone DNA testing.
Why? And what's the broader message sent out to victims of rape? Does it make it seem like they don't matter?
Rebecca Campbell is a professor of community psychology and program evaluation at Michigan State University. She was brought on board by the National Institute of Justice to evaluate how these Detroit rape kits were handled.
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