'We didn't want to be a barrier': Saskatoon police dismiss few sexual assault complaints as unfounded

Just two per cent of sexual assaults reported to Saskatoon city police were deemed unfounded last year, well below the national and provincial averages.
According to a Statistics Canada report published this week, 14 per cent of sexual assaults reported across the country and 13 per cent of sexual assaults reported in Saskatchewan were deemed unfounded by police in 2017. In other words, police determined the sexual assaults had not occurred, or that insufficient evidence was available on which t