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Absolutely not. theres a role that police play in our public safety system but if were trying to keep residents safe, preserve life, we need to greatly expand beyond the police only model which is what were trying to do here in minneapolis. >> look, there was a debate, and i was going to play a clip but i dont have time to do it so im just going to read part of it. i dont know where it has ever been done and i dont want to be another test case. this was somebody who said, im not really supportin...

Gov. Mike DeWine pledges state's help to seek justice in unsolved sexual assault cases

To investigate, failed to notify local authorities, that this fbi agent clearly used this as an opportunity to advance his own career rather than actually investigate and pursue charges against larry nassar, during that entire time, remember, hes working at michigan state university. and he is, of course, continuing to molest and sexually abuse young women and girls and all during that time period he could have been stopped had the fbi done their job. so this is a failure at all levels for law e...

A child wants to know their father. they dont know their background, they dont know their history. i dont know about their illnesses or anything. but i would be forced to carry that baby. thats not -- thats not common -- thats not even common sense. >> randi kaye joins us now. randi, this is so important and so timely. why are all these rape kits still on the shelf untested? >> reporter: a couple of reasons, john. one of those reasons is manpower. the state representative told me they just dont ...

Control. we lost our power. and now, you are continuing to strip us by saying by six weeks, if you dont get rid of that baby, you have to keep it. no, sir. thats -- thats ludicrous. >> reporter: she knows if she had gotten pregnant and that law had been in place, she would have had to carry and deliver her rapists child at 13. >> i didnt know who he was. and that child wants to know their father. they dont know their background. they dont know their history. i dont know about the illnesses or an...

That no woman, no person will be a victim of rape. >> he will have his work cut out for him. there have been as many as 18,000 rapes in a single year in texas. and right now theres a backlog of at least 5,000 rape kits in the state, meaning many rapists have not been caught. cnns randi kaye has been investigating the backlog for several years and is in dallas with the latest. >> that would be a beautiful thing to see but its not going to happen. its not realistic. >> reporter: lavinia masters is...

>> house bill 8 is now law. >> reporter: when texas governor greg abbott signed into law the lavinia masters act in 2019, she was there. the act was designed to audit untested rape kits across the state and set strict testing requirements. the texas department of public safety tells cnn as of august there are still 5,298 untested rape kits. but weve learned that number doesnt include the untested rape kits from 231 law enforcement agencies who did not report their numbers to the state. so the nu...

All rapists from the streets of texas. how can the governor of texas eliminate all rapists from the street when the governor and the state hasnt even been able to eliminate the backlog of rape kits? >> exactly. that is the biggest question. when you say things like that, it is outlandish to say things in that manner. >> house bill 8 is now law. >> reporter: when governor abbott signed into law the act in 2019, she was there. the act was designed to audit untested rape kits across the state and s...