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What moved you to try to do something unusual here both in taking these bank penalty funds, putting them towards these rape investigations and doing it around the country? >> well, first of all, the reality is as you were stating that women around the country have been undergoing these invasive exams after sexual assaults which are designed to capture physical evidence, to look for dna in that physical evidence and determine whether there is someone incarcerated or with a criminal record that is actually responsibility for that crime. frankly, it's an injustice to the victims, women and men, w...

Misidentified and beyond the internal review at nypd is that the kind of case that your office is going to look at? >> i must say i don't know the facts of that case in detail. i understand what i've read in the paper. >> he said publicly and the police haven't denied it that he was grabbed, the police didn't identify himself according to him. when they were able to identify him, he was released. nypd saying there's an internal review. >> our office has always investigated police misconduct where we have seen it. and if we believe it is criminal, we've proceeded to charge. it's happened to 16 ...

Between 2000 and 2003, we ultimately tested 17,000 backlogged hits. we got 670 hits to the data base. in houston this year -- >> that's 489 prosecutions of alleged rapists that you would not otherwise have. >> exactly. houston just last year tested 6,000 kits. got 850 matches and developed 29 prosecutio prosecutions. people should have confidence it's going to bring justice to victims who have been waiting for it for years. this is really a national issue. a rapist who rapes in manhattan is very likely to strike in another state. if in california that individual is caught in another crime, we'...

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