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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Dec 13, 2019

The City of Memphis has received $4.1 million as part of more than $376 million awarded by federal law enforcement to police departments across the country. Of the total received, $1.8 million is for cutting the backlog of untested rape kits, the Daily Memphian reports. The city identified 12,000 rape kits that had not been tested in 2013. As of April of this year, 98% of those had been tested. The rest of the funding will go to law enforcement training and equipment, efforts to address violent crime, gunshot recognition technology and program evaluation. In addition, Shelby County received a $602,482 grant to reduce recidivism through innovative re-entry initiatives, and the University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center of Memphis received $500,000 for youth gang diversion programs and $100,000 to strengthen its medical examiner program.