No really, it's a BIG issue...

On December 30, 2018, The Daily Progress published a report titled, "Charlottesville Police Department seeing a 'mass exodus'. The report noted multiple reasons that police officers were fleeing employment in the city of Charlottesville. Among the stated reasons was a claim that police officers are under-appreciated and "routinely verbally assaulted" per Chief of Police and mega change agent RaShall Brackney.

On January 4, 2019, WINA radio host Rob Schilling filed a FOIA request for data on how widespread this issue was. 

On January 8, 2019, the city responded to Mr. Schilling, and classified the evidence of the alleged routine harassment of police officers as "criminal investigative files", and stated that the evidence was being withheld entirely. 

On January 9, 2019, Schilling shot back, and requested additional information that should have been provided under FOIA law in the initial response, but wasn't for some unknown reason. 

Also on January 9th, following a meeting with a city attorney John Blair, Public Information Officer Brian Wheeler advised the Chief of Police that he needed the additional information requested by Schilling to be provided. 

On January 10, 2019 the city sent a final response to Schilling detailing this very, very, totally serious issue. Folks, the data doesn't lie, and it shows that the problem is so widespread that they are withholding a grand total of TWO body worn camera videos.