polly hoskins is a leading sexual violence advocate perfectly summed it up when she said, if you have stacks of physical evidence of a crime and you are not doing everything you can with this evidence, then you must be making a decision that this isn't a very serious crime. here is the good news. jurisdictions have started to see the results of testing every single rape kit. new york city cleared its backlog of 70,000 kits and now tests every single kit that comes in. the proof of the value of testing every kit -- their arrest rate for rape jumped from 40% to 70% compared -- [applause] right? huge! compared with only 24% nationally. fight with statistics. within the past two years, los angeles have also cleared its backlog of 12,669 kits. and then there's detroit. and the unbelievable wayne county prosecutor, ms. kim worthy -- [applause] who is here with me on the dais. i really want to be you when i grow up. it takes us seven days to shoot an episode. her office -- and she did not handles 70,000 cases a year. and she did not have a full-time unit to prosecute crimes until just under

polly hoskins is a leading sexual violence advocate perfectly summed it up when she said, if you havef physical evidence of a crime and you are not doing everything you can with this evidence, then you must be making a decision that this isn't a very serious crime. here is the good news. jurisdictions have started to see the results of testing every single rape kit. new york city cleared its backlog of 70,000 kits and now tests every single kit that comes in. the proof of the value of testing every kit -- their arrest rate for rape jumped from 40% to 70% compared -- [applause] right? huge! compared with only 24% nationally. fight with statistics. within the past two years, los angeles have also cleared its backlog of 12,669 kits. and then there's detroit . and the unbelievable wayne county prosecutor, ms. kim worthy -- [applause] who is here with me on the dais. i really want to be you when i grow up. it takes us seven days to shoot an episode. her office handles thousands of cases per year -- and she did not have a full-time unit to prosecute crimes until just under two years ago. no