Table 5.

Return on investment from forensic DNA initiatives.

Initiative	Return on Investment
Testing all sexual assault kits [27]	$98.74 to $645.29 per $1 spent
Louisiana sexual assault cold case project [24]	$6546.63 per $1 spent
Improving response time by 1 day [3]	$1677.75 per $1 spent
Increasing database size (for Louisiana cold case project) [29]	$53.52 per $1 spent
Social cost savings of increasing the database size [26]	$1566 to $19,945 per profile
Increasing database size universally (USA model) [29]	$4050.47 per $1 spent
Forensic Investigative Genetic Genealogy (FIGG) [28]	$311.19 per $1 spent