What is the amount of DNA evidence a particular city or agency may collect and how much is being analyzed?
In one example, one medium size police department evidence vault in southern Nevada receives over 1000 packages of evidence each month. Let’s assume that each crime scene with physical evidence to be processed or collected, has potential DNA on many of the items that the suspect(s) handled. With a conservative average of one potential DNA sample per evidence package, over 1000 potential sources of DNA evidence are recovered each month. Of course, many of those packages may not contain any DNA samples at all and other packages may have large numbers of DNA samples. Some cases may not require DNA evidence analysis in order to be solved.
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