Incidents in Washington D.C. where law enforcement officers are reported as the victim have seen a 4x increase since July 2021.

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Since January 2016 there have been at least 3,622 incidents reported in DC where law enforcement officers were a victim.

Now that we’re able to explore crime data in this fashion, we can more easily discover interesting trends like:

in West Virginia, reports of prostitution-related offenses seem to occur most often Wednesday to Friday and during the warm months of the year

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In July, I was approached for help in getting certain policing statistics in West Virginia.

I was so surprised the FBI's tools to explore crime data lacked critical features making it easy to use for researchers and the public in general ...

... so naturally I made my own. 🙂

US Crime Review (uscrimereview.com) is the largest public crime analytics website, with 183 million+ incidents (& counting!) covering ~86% of the population.

Powered by @duckdb.org, @cloudflare.social, & others, with data from the FBI, the US Census Bureau, OMB, and 17K+ law enforcement agencies.

West Virginia Attorney General, his family, and former campaign manager (currently a registered lobbyist) used State aircraft for a weekend trip to Mackinac Island & Charlevoix Michigan for a political conference.

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Their trip cost thousands in public $'s.

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West Virginia state aircraft flew 2 trips, under 4 flight hours, to flood impacted areas in southern WV since February: wv-gov-flights.pages.dev/trips?search....

WV State Police have spent more than double that time on marijuana eradication missions: wv-gov-flights.pages.dev/trips?search....

It's simply unreasonable for the legislature to create a new section in the WVFOIA to exempt themselves with their own rules.

This is very "rules for thee but not for me" vibes, especially considering the WVFOIA already has 100+ reasonable exemptions to which they've been using.

Without the ability to easily search and visualize these records, the public is completely in the dark.

Now that we have it ... let's start to shine some light on how State of West Virginia aircraft has been used over the years. 🧵

The State of West Virginia operates a fleet of aircraft for use by State executives—but who’s flying, where, and why?

Now you can track over 5,000 flights (and counting!) on the State of WV aviation fleet with this public database:

wv-gov-flights.pages.dev

West Virginia University admins have spent more than $11 million+ in less than 10 years on chartering flights on private jets.

But who's flying, to where, and why? Here's a database with data on almost 700 of these flights costing over $7.3 million.

✈️ wvu-flights.pages.dev

🚨 Last night the Berkeley County Commission (Berkeley County, WV) voted unanimously — after a 90-minute closed executive session — to remove Nathan Harmon as Sheriff of Berkeley County.

But this isn't the end for Harmon yet ...

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⚖️ How a #FOIA led to the indictment of an elected county sheriff in West Virginia.

A thread w/ @derekwebber.bsky.social of an ongoing and still developing saga involving an unethical and corrupt sheriff in West Virginia’s eastern panhandle.