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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Even more gross is having the nerve as an elected official, chosen by the public to represent the public's interest, to remove yourself from the definition of a "public body" and from the scope of the public's mechanism for oversight and accountability.

This is not just coming from an outsider ... per a report by the WV Legislature's auditing unit released just two weeks ago, revenues from flights tend to make up less than 20% of the unit's expenditures.

They are literally just burning money in the air.

www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/re...

And still, even after the 12 charges publicly filed against Harmon so far ... he's in for even more rounds of fun after State-level investigations are complete. But maybe it's best I keep quiet about that for now. 😉

The power of #FOIA is stronger than you think.

💏 To add to the fun ... the statement of charges also reveals that a "Former Deputy 1" was discovered by investigators to have been having sex in his cruiser with "informants". And it was that deputy who responded and conducted a PBT after Henderson turned off his bodycam.

While his removal from office is effective immediately, Harmon will still face trial (originally scheduled for pre-trial in March 2024) for the now 12 counts of official misconduct introduced by Berkeley County Prosecuting Attorney Wilkes-Delligatti.

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Despite the public concern, the Sheriff’s Dept. made no effort to release information until after we FOIA’d them. In fact, the accident report wasn’t even created until the day after my FOIA was filed, and the day before the Sheriff’s media blitz.

It wasn’t until 5 days later, on the 24th, when they'd respond to my FOIA and release to me those same records. Tell me how preferring backchannel relationships with local high school sports reporters instead of respecting freedom of information laws "maintains transparency".

The next day, on January 19, instead of responding to my email with the records I requested … Sheriff Harmon wrote and sent a letter containing those same records to a local radio talk show he frequently appears on.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=P82s...

On January 17, with the incident number and datetime, I FOIA’d the Sheriff’s Office for all records regarding the incident. They responded on January 18 claiming that their Records Manager was on vacation.

On January 10, with this incident info, we FOIA’d the CAD report and audio from central dispatch. Three days later they released records to us confirming the incident involved Sheriff Harmon’s daughter, incl. audio of Harmon calling into dispatch to report being on scene.

Immediately, to corroborate the tip, we combed through central dispatch calls for service data collected by Berkeley Co.'s Emergency Communications Center and narrowed thousands of data points down to the single most plausible incident closely matching the conditions.

Early on January 9, an anonymous commenter on a local community Facebook group alluded that a recent late-night rollover car accident by Carrie Harmon had led to a DUI coverup by none other than Sheriff Nathan Harmon himself … Carrie’s father.