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Stateside Podcast: The impact of Detroit's rape kit backlog

Collage by Rachel Ishikawa
Collage by Rachel Ishikawa

In 2009, an assistant Wayne County prosecutor made a horrifying discovery: more than 11,000 untested rape kits sitting in an abandoned Detroit Police warehouse. The repercussions of that find are still being felt today. On this episode of the Stateside podcast we speak with Michigan Public's Sarah Cwiek about her reporting on this story.

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  • Sarah Cwiek, reporter for Michigan Public

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Rachel Ishikawa joined Michigan Public in 2020 as a podcast producer. She produced Kids These Days, a limited-run series that launched in the summer of 2020.