Misleading: Roy Cooper let 16,000 rape kits sit untested on the shelf.

“Roy Cooper let 16,000 rape kits sit untested on the shelf.”

The facts: The roughly 15,000 untested kits were held by more than 500 local law enforcement agencies, not by the state crime lab. They were counted under a 2017 inventory law passed after Cooper left the attorney general's office. In 2019 Cooper signed a law funding testing and requiring kits be submitted within 45 days. FactCheck.org rated the ad misleading.