Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman pledges to strengthen sex assault investigations

Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman vowed Wednesday to intensify how his office pursues sexual assault investigations, including more scrutiny of cases that police close without assigning an investigator and cases never referred to prosecutors.

Freeman also said he may hire more prosecutors and assign a prosecutor to work more directly on cases with Minneapolis police.

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