Mayor Keller gives update on city’s rape kit backlog

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller is taking action with hopes of clearing the city’s backlog of untested rape kits.
As state auditor, Keller found there were more than 5,000 untested evidence kits from sexual assaults in New Mexico. Seventy-five percent of the untested kits were in an Albuquerque crime lab.
Wednesday the mayor signed an executive order to speed up the process of fixing the backlog.
The Albuquerque Police Department and the city’s Sexu