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http://www.mercurynews.com/californ...unning-out-long-beach-police-departments-cold
Federal funding is running out and the cold case unit will be closed at the end of this month.
COLD CASE NUMBERS
Federal money granted to unit: $605,998
Cost of the average DNA testing kit: $6,000
Oldest cold case date: 1944
Most recent cold case: 2011
Number of open murder cases: 921
Number of cases submitted for DNA evidence: 67
Cases resolved with DNA, I.D.: 30+
Detectives assigned to unit: 3
"It's not the first time the budget has been a problem for cold cases, police department officials said. The first Cold Case Unit, launched in 2005 and led by now retired Homicide Detective Dennis Robbins, was cut in 2007.
The unit was revived after the National Institute of Justice awarded two grants totaling $605,998 to the LBPD in 2008 and 2009.
Since then, the unit - which includes full-time Homicide Detective Bryan McMahon and part-time investigators Stephen Jones, a homicide detective who retired in 2008; and Mike Dugan, a Robbery and Career Criminal Apprehension Team detective who retired in 2003 - has reviewed hundreds of files and submitted 67 cold cases for DNA and other scientific evidence.
Of those submitted, more than 46 percent have been solved with either a DNA hit or a suspect name entered into state and national databases."
Federal funding is running out and the cold case unit will be closed at the end of this month.
COLD CASE NUMBERS
Federal money granted to unit: $605,998
Cost of the average DNA testing kit: $6,000
Oldest cold case date: 1944
Most recent cold case: 2011
Number of open murder cases: 921
Number of cases submitted for DNA evidence: 67
Cases resolved with DNA, I.D.: 30+
Detectives assigned to unit: 3
"It's not the first time the budget has been a problem for cold cases, police department officials said. The first Cold Case Unit, launched in 2005 and led by now retired Homicide Detective Dennis Robbins, was cut in 2007.
The unit was revived after the National Institute of Justice awarded two grants totaling $605,998 to the LBPD in 2008 and 2009.
Since then, the unit - which includes full-time Homicide Detective Bryan McMahon and part-time investigators Stephen Jones, a homicide detective who retired in 2008; and Mike Dugan, a Robbery and Career Criminal Apprehension Team detective who retired in 2003 - has reviewed hundreds of files and submitted 67 cold cases for DNA and other scientific evidence.
Of those submitted, more than 46 percent have been solved with either a DNA hit or a suspect name entered into state and national databases."