Manhattan DA pledges $38 million to Help Clear Nationwide Rape Kit Backlog
(DNAINFO) Noah Hurowitz — Vice President Joe Biden showed up personally to support the Manhattan District Attorney’s plan to fund $38 million in grants to states outside of New York to help clear a nationwide backlog of rape kits at a press conference in the city on Thursday.
The grants would help rape survivors, police and prosecutors in states near and far, but could help New Yorkers as well, as a rape kit across the country could be the key to a crime committed in Manhattan, Biden said at the conference held in the headquarters of the New York Medical Examiner, which was also attended by Attorney General Loretta Lynch.