Politics & Government
Michigan Gets $7.5 Million Grant to Test Kits, Go After Serial Rapists
Michigan law enforcement agencies received $7.5 million in grants to clear one of the most egregious backlogs of rape kits in the country.

Michigan will get $7.5 million in federal grants to clear a backlog of untested rape kits, including 11,000 found abandoned in a Detroit police storage locker in 2009, and improve law enforcement response to sexual assault.
Nearly all of the rape kits have been tested, Gov. Rick Snyder said earlier this month, but the grants announced Thursday by the Justice Department will be used for further testing, pay for DNA analysis, criminal investigations and help for rape victims across the country, the Detroit Free Press reports.
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