CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) – Following the unveiling of who wrote the five-page anonymous letter alleging wrongdoing within the West Virginia State Police, 13 News spoke with the whistleblower about why he wrote it and what he hopes for the future of the organization.
Cpl. Joseph Comer, a member of the West Virginia State Police, said it all comes down to doing what was right, and he couldn’t stand by watching the misconduct within the department.
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“At times there was certain aspects that were shameful, and it was because of a select few,” Comer said. “I wasn’t willing to sit back and watch everything I worked for and that I believed in be diminished by selfish decisions or decisions out of greed or arrogance.”
Even before Comer wrote the letter to Gov. Jim Justice and other officials, he said he tried to address concerns with his superiors. However, instead of seeing improvements, he said the misconduct got worse.
“Everybody at the time, they were at the end of the road, at the end of this administration, they were retiring and they were leaving. For those that we’re left, we were being left with a mountain of issues,” Comer said. “And to have watched how bad it got, just in the short interim, it was kind of like, ‘how bad is this going to be in two more years?’”
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