I think the willingness to focus on that part of the time, what education they get when they're in prison--no one wants to say they're getting out, but they are.
I think part of the successes that we have had with so many challenges ahead... is a tribute to all of you.
I think sometimes laws and funding were set back at a time before we had this extent of the technology we have.
Last year, it was discovered that Los Angeles County has the largest backlog of untested rape kits of any jurisdiction in the country.
One of the things that I have found recently in the last 10 years--we call it the 'CSI effect'--is that juries are actually expecting to hav...
Thank you so much, Chairman Dorgan, for chairing this, and to our witnesses.
When we start to prioritize certain people, we create a parallel universe of justice, and that has to stop.
I always thought that one of the real beauties of VAWA is how it tried to encourage community-based responses and getting groups involved.
It happens all the time, and in our State there were proposals to do this.
Just to define this, the CSI effect, for everyone, is that juries expect this and, if they do not have it, they may think that the person is...
I know somewhere Paul and Sheila Wellstone are looking down on us today.