Holy shit, it took them 10 years to fix the rape case backlog!? I looked it up when I saw this thread and it says they've only finished around April this year. Can't see an update if they've already had convictions for the remaining 500 cases.
What's troubling was that out of that 11000 cases, about 800 was perpetrated by repeat offenders. Those guys could have been raping more before they finished with this stash of kits. How is this happening in America?
Now I know the point of thread. I thought the OP was talking about a new type of rape kit that hasn't been tested for its effectiveness yet.
And yes, that's a lot of rapists that got to rape again, and reproduce even more. Spreading out their gene pool.