detention facility.” The crime rate in Kansas City has risen 8% where violent crimes are concerned, but non-violent crimes by decreased 30% in 1996 over 1995. The forensics investigators in Kansas City take their role in helping solve crime quite seriously. However, they also enjoy the work because it provides many challenges from both a scientific and detective perspective. As one article on a pioneer in forensic science relates, “Ellen Burnau enjoys the challenge that comes with the task of identifying people from such minute evidence as a drop of blood or a flake of skin. As a DNA forensic expert for the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, Burnau also has analyzed the genetic material of murder suspects and helped prosecutors convict them.”
Both the North Kansas City, Missouri and the South Kansas City, Missouri Police Departments house their own forensic science investigation divisions. However, in Georgia forensic science is conducted by a statewide agency, only the second of its kind in the nation when it was originally created, “Established in 1952 as the second statewide Crime Laboratory in the United States, the Division of Fo
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