Article #3: Forensic Testing

From the blog, Grits for Breakfast, the writer wrote a blog about the forensic process here in Texas. The writer describes how Texas state crime labs process the evidences and how it can be use to pin point the murderer or criminal suspect. The writer also emphasizes on how slow the state labs are at processing the information to quickly solve the case. This blog emphasizes on the importance of speed and accuracy for forensic scientists to quickly process the evidences to allow the detectives to solve the cases. Yet the author proves that Texas state labs are not that speedy from two very similar cases. One case was reported when a 66 year old lady named Gloria Flores was found dead outside her home, but this was eleven years ago and the mystery is still unsolved!!! Then there was another murder case of 50 year old Sylvia Perez Clark murdered six months ago and still unsolved as well. Currently it takes about eight months for DNA analysis and twelve months for firearm analysis. Clearly this shows that the two Texas crime labs located only in Austin and Corpus Christi are not effectively rapid enough to process all the evidences.

After reading this blog, I assumed that the writer is aiming at the general audiences, but most importantly the criminal justices officials and state government. For one, the writer wants the readers to know that the basic process of how evidences are examined to better prepare them with any legal entanglement. The writer also wants the reader to advocate for more state labs to effectively raise the bars. Secondly, the writer wants to alert the state government about this serious issue and how it is necessary that the criminal law enforcers solve the case as quickly as possible in order to allow the victim to rest in peace. As stated before, the unfortunate deaths of Gloria Flores and Sylvia Perez Clark have remained unsolved and this triggers the effort the detectives are putting to solve cases and Austin a safer place.

Personally after reading this blog, I agree with the writer about how the state labs should not process evidences that can wind up being more than a year. As citizen, I would feel unsafe knowing that the death of some victims are still left unsolved, and consequentially this would allow the real murderer to commit in more haunting crimes. I find that detectives and Texas government should mandate more officials to work on the cases and open more state labs to allow more evidences to be processed. With only two labs, the evidences must travel around the state just to be analyze. Obviously this will take a tremendous amount of time to transport all of the evidences from the crime scene. Therefore, I would hope that one day in the near future more forensic labs are being built and more cases are solved at a quicker pace.