; and (G) increasing compensation to the wrongfully convicted. (4) Policies and procedures to improve the accuracy of eyewitness identifications such as those recommended by the National Academy of Sciences, the United States National Institute of Justice, the International Association of Chiefs of Police, and the American Bar Association are readily available. (5) More accurate eyewitness identifications increase the ability of police and prosecutors to convict the guilty and protect the innocent. (6) The integrity of the criminal justice process is enhanced by adherence to best practices in evidence gathering. (7) Federal, State, and local governments will benefit from the improvement of the accuracy of eyewitness identifications. (8) The value of properly preserved biological evidence has been enhanced by the discovery of modern DNA testing methods, which, coupled with a comprehensive system of DNA databases that store crime scene and offender profiles, allow law enforcement to improve its crime-solving potential. (9) Tapping the potential of preserved biological evidence requires the proper identification, collection, preservation, storage, cataloguing and organization of such evidence. (10) Law enforcement agencies indicate that cold case investigations are hindered by an inability to access biological evidence that was collected in connection with criminal investigations. (11) Innocent people mistakenly convicted of the serious crimes for which biological evidence is probative cannot prove their innocence if such evidence is not accessible for testing in appropriate circumstances. (12) It is well established that the failure to update policies regarding the preservation of evidence squanders valuable law enforcement resources, manpower hours and storage space. (13) Simple but crucial enhancements to protocols for properly preserving biological evidence can solve old crimes, enhance public safety and settle claims of innocence. (14) Existing Federal, State, and local laws still erect procedural hurdles that