OP-ED: "Is Rape Serious?" by Nicholas D. Kristof, New York Times, 30 April 2009.

Scary description of how many rape kits around the country never get tested. They simply pile up.

Then there's NYC, which made a big effort in last decade to speed up the process, raising its arrest rate from 40% to 70% in the process.

Throughout its long history, NYC has been a huge force of innovation in municipal services. It apparently remains so to this day.