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Recently the Police Department in Detroit shut down its crime laboratory after an audit uncovered serious errors in numerous cases. The audit reported that sloppy work had probably resulted in wrongful convictions.

The closure of the Forensic laboratory in Detroit means that all the pending and future cases will be sent to the Michigan State Police, which operates seven laboratories. While the officials from the Detroit Police Department, will try to determine whether the errors resulted in guilty verdicts against innocent people.

Such a casual approach from any forensics firm can never be tolerated as it can lead to the conviction of innocent people, thereby defeating the sole purpose of why forensic investigation is used in the trials of a crime. But as in this case, at least the city of Detroit has acknowledged their mistakes and doing what it can to correct them. While there have been cases like: Mississippi does blunder, wherein the investigation went horribly wrong and yet it was allowed to propagate further.