Earlier this year, the city's new police chief, Robert Estes, announced his staff would review 460 sexual assault cases going back almost a decade and a half. But nearly all of the roughly 100 sexual assault cold cases that Kennon and the department's evidence technician reviewed involved Alaska Native victims. In Nome, Alaska Native women leading efforts to improve police response understood this. 'EVERYBODY IS DUE JUSTICE'Estes launched the audit of the city's sexual assault cases in early 2019. Kennon and Kosto set out to review 460 sexual assault cases going back 14 years.

Source: Stuff December 22, 2019 03:33 UTC