The biggest issue at these public entity crime labs is staffing. They can't afford to keep people around because the private sector pays much better.
Well, Mayor Slimy Lyda just threw the cops under the bus; pandering to the very criminals who threw rocks through her windows (of her personal home). I don't live in the City of St. Louis (thank God!), but I hope that she gets voted out next term. But the City is controlled by Democrats, just like most of the other crime-ridden urban cesspools across the country.