Innocent people are being wrongly convicted and criminals are escaping justice
There are many people who have spent years of horror in prison because forensic scientists found a slight possibility that their DNA matched whatever they tested. For example Horace Roberts who spent 4 years in prison after being accused of murder of his former girlfriend. Or Michael Ursy Jr who was accused of rape and murder to a young Idaho woman.
“It can only now be interpreted as a lack of priority being given to forensic science quality by the government,” Tully said.
The government isn't paying enough attention on how serious forensic science actually is. It can help a person be able to solve cases like murder, kidnapping, robbery etc. They aren't taking accountability for not taking leadership, victims or just people who want answers get upset when its inaccurate or just doesn't make sense. Over all forensic science is important and shouldn't be taken for granted.
The criminal justice system must have the full confidence of the public.”
There are many stories of cocky workers who put information found in front of jury and expect great answers. However when proven that the "answer" they've given is false, people start to question whether or not the justice system should be trusted. Being able to present something and make it believable is one thing but when people figure out the truth is another.
The report reveals that more than 1,100 profiles stored on the national DNA database were contaminated by police officers and staff, and needed to be removed.
Since there isn't enough people to be scientists there are officers and staff who don't understand or don't realize that they are messing with evidence. This causes evidence that could've been useful to be discarded. 1,100 is a small number of how many actual profiles have been contaminated.
Problems with crime scene investigators raises a continuing danger to contaminating scenes of offences, and there is a shortage of toxicologists in England and Wales, needed to determine when someone is poisoned, or how much drink or drugs someone has consumed.
Along with the fact that the results of testing isn't 100% accurate, there isn't enough people to examine and test important things for cases. This would cause scientists to rush testing and create a bigger problems with inaccurate answers. The world is full of crime not getting the solutions for those crimes creates a lot of tension in the field.
The seven-year delay between giving assurances about providing statutory powers and the present time has previously been described by the House of Lords science and technology committee as “embarrassing”
So much time was given for this issue to be fixed and it never was it just worsened. They were supposed to lead this field into the right direction but it seemed like they really didn't try. Many lives suffered because of this and they are the ones being hated on for this. More and more time goes by and they become lazy like when people say "I'll start tomorrow"
“Achieving accreditation to a quality standard is neither the beginning nor the end of improving quality. Engendering a real culture of quality requires ongoing leadership and investment in people, processes and innovation. Therefore, the instability that has continued to be seen in this reporting year represents a significant risk to quality.”
There's a certain care that scientists need in order to be successful. There are scientists who can achieve so much without a lot quality however that's only a few. Having teams and communities of people who study forensic science need to have a great quality in there work to be able to provide to others.
choices to be made between operational deployment on one hand and making sure the basic quality-assurance measures are in place on the other.”
There needs to be a balance in the justice system and in this field there not getting enough of it. Fully had explained that we need to have order and organization one hand. While having basic necessities met like funding for BETTER equipment on the other. It seems like the government doesn't provide both its one or the other or nothing at all.
Meanwhile, a lack of funds coupled with an explosion in digital evidence have led to parts of the forensic science system operating at or beyond its capacity.
In this field there aren't enough funds to support accurate results in DNA testing. This is leading to false accusations and more time wasted for the scientists. The big issue is that more money is wasted with all the equipment needed, Being able to fund money will allow scientists to save more money.
Without quality assurance in place, you are not going to find the errors and the problems.”
When people ask for reassurance they expect it. I mean who wouldn't? However when they don't get it its like everything crumbles around them. That is how the system is making people feel on there cases when they aren't given the answers they need to heal or when it leads to nowhere. There is barely any quality which leads to many errors.
She warned of wide-ranging problems threatening the safety of justice, saying that too few providers are meeting the quality standards that were meant to stop errors.
How come people don't listen to warnings now? Not just in this field but everywhere else too. I think we are so used to how corrupted everything is that when we have as solution we don't want it. There are standards in this world and sometimes we are actually able to meet them but we just don't want to. In this field there cant be errors but there are and its very hard to get that through no just the governments head but everyone else's.