Police Explain How Rape Kit Ended Up In A Database

San Francisco CA

04 March, 2022

6:34 PM

Description

By Annika Hom, Mission Local March 3, 2022 The San Francisco Police Commission grilled police department leaders Wednesday about the policies and procedures that allowed officers to use DNA collected from a rape kit to link a sexual assault victim to an unrelated case. "This was a horrendous mistake," Police Chief William Scott. "It's been corrected. Policies have been put in place for this to not happen again." To read the full article, click here. Mission Local covers San Francisco from the vantage point of the Mission, a neighborhood with all of the promise and problems of a major city. You can support Mission Local here.