"Instead of a fireside chat to flush out the incident(s), the victim is, essentially, interrogated." 

Yes, he or she is -- like every person who lodges a serious charge.

I am dumbfounded by Ms Segal's reaction to "unfounded." She is proposing the creation of first and second-class victims, with fireside chats and "empathy" for first-class victims and bare rooms and cold stares for the others. She apparently forgets that the charge of sexual assault is a grave matter, one that (as other commenters have said) can ruin another person's life, or at the very least, soil his or her reputation. Charges of that magnitude are to be made seriously and received seriously. The sad fact of the matter is that the police do not know who is telling the truth and who is trying, maliciously or frivolously, to destroy someone else's life.  So yes of course, an objective, knowledgeable female police officer and an interpreter, but no "fireside chats," and no first and second-class victims, please.