How did the Star Tribune develop its recent and ongoing story on sexual assault? Join us as Star Tribune Team Leader Dave Hage and reporter Jennifer Bjorhus tell how they explored this issue and ultimately published a highly read series of articles. While working on a story about a rape at the University of Minnesota three years ago, Star Tribune reporters kept hearing from law enforcement sources that police in Minnesota often do a poor job of investigating sexual assault reports. To test that premise, they obtained and reviewed more than 1,000 individual case files from police agencies across the state and checked them against widely accepted best practices for sex assault investigations--and then asked dozens of women to tell their stories. The result was “Denied Justice,” an ongoing Star Tribune investigation. Find the first story in the series here.