Since August, the Police Department has been considering consolidation of its five evidence warehouses — including the two that flooded — into a single, new warehouse, Mr. Browne said.
Police in Memphis, Tennessee, have discovered 200 unprocessed rape kits, some dating back to 1976, in a giant evidence storage warehouse, adding to a 12,000 kit backlog the city is already struggling to clear.
While keeping violent offenders in prison might keep them from committing more crimes (or at least ensure that those crimes are committed inside prison walls), there is growing evidence that warehousing people indefinitely is too expensive and ineffective at preventing crime.
Ernest L. Duplessis of the Navy, a spokesman for the United States Central Command, which overseas all American forces in the region, said there was no evidence that the warehouse in Samawa contained food or other routine supplies, but rather was being used by Iraqi forces.
Some workers collected evidence in the warehouse that was examined outside. .
The evidence at the schoolbook warehouse confirms just how large those quantities were.
He heads through a tunnel to The Pentagon, where he finds an elaborate filing system and warehouse of evidence, the same warehouse that The Smoking Man was seen leaving at the very end of "Pilot".
The New York Police Department has assigned 20 officers, 6 civilians and a captain to recover evidence at the two warehouses, under the supervision of Robert S. Martinez, director of the department's Support Services Bureau, Mr. Browne said.
"There was this warehouse of old evidence that none of us knew about.
The evidence yielded in the Medici warehouse raids has also been crucial to Italy's successful recovery of works from American museums, including the Met, the Getty, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the Princeton University Art Museum.
