http://www.click2houston.com/editorials/4718021/detail.html
"Appalling is the only word to describe the magnitude of the mismanagement under which the Houston Police Department crime lab operated, as described in the third report of the independent investigator. Some results of the ineptitude are already known: evidence contaminated with rain water from a leaky roof, more than 19,000 rape kits never analyzed or sent to the federal DNA profiling database.
This report concentrates on the history and lack of oversight that caused this.
HPD's underfunding and personnel classifications caused pay to be so low that employees -- even senior managers -- moonlighted. Turf wars and feuds put under qualified people in critical jobs. A detached HPD bureaucracy held no one accountable for incompetence and outright fraud."
Third Report of the Independent Investigator for the Houston Police Department Crime Laboratory and Property Room - PDF - http://www.hpdlabinvestigation.org/reports/050630report.pdf
