It is estimated that hundreds of thousands of rape kits sit untested in police and crime lab storage facilities across the country. Each kit represents a survivor who underwent the lengthy and invasive rape kit exam and reported the rape to the police. So why have so many gone untested? Because for too long, the value of rape kit testing has not been fully understood, and adequate resources have not been allocated. And right now, there is still more we do not know about the backlog than we do know. But things are changing. Reform is happening.

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