Rapid Growth Of Crime Laboratoriess In The United States

1) Describe the underlying reasons for the rapid growth of crime laboratories in the U.S. since the late 1960s.

In the 1960's the world's crime rate had went up with more crimes and more drug activity more then ever. Crime labs were keeping up with the times as well as the crime. As the years went on more crime labs got more technical and got new equipment and started to branch out into different units which meant that they were able to get more scientist and which led to being able to open more offices citywide and having enough staff for the offices that they had opened citywide. Some crime laboratories in New York had there own ME or Corner on staff which ment that they would not have to wait as long for a person to pick up the body from