Alaska Requires DNA Be Collected From People Arrested for Violent Crimes. Many Police Have Ignored That.
ProPublica
12/31/2020
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This story was co-published with the Anchorage Daily News, a member of the ProPublica Local Reporting Network.
Law enforcement agencies across Alaska, including in the state capital, are failing to collect DNA from people arrested for violent crimes, violating a state law passed with great fanfare in 2007 that was going to put Alaska at the leading edge of solving rape cases.