Originally Posted by
OneGuy67
Unfortunately, you are right. Property crime is a lower priority and the labs are too busy handling person to person crime analysis to handle etching on a stolen wrench. Some agencies have been swabbing for DNA on stolen vehicles, but those analysis's are put way down on the back burner and in most cases, the statute of limitations runs out before they are analyzed. Too much backlog of other crimes. Sad but true. Not enough lab techs, not enough equipment to run tests, not enough lab space to put nonexistent equipment for nonexistent lab techs to run analysis.