Cengiz July 26, 2012, 03:08:32

Greg I did look over some of the case file the other night, and it seems likely to me that the ofciefr who spoke with the family at the hospital was the same ofciefr who responded to the emergency call at the Tarklin Valley Rd residence. I didn’t see that confirmed explicitly in the record, but there were notes indicating that the responding ofciefr proceeded to the hospital after leaving the scene.Also, it’s pretty clear that Detective Hall was on the case within a day or two of Henry’s hospitalization. Once again, this is confirmed in the summary memo.I think it is likely that there has been an unstated policy at the KCSO of disinterest toward drug addicted (or drug-user) victims of crime. But I expect that issue will be more effectively addressed in the context of a system-wide evaluation of policy. As far as Henry’s particular case is concerned, the KCSO and the DA’s office cannot rely on their disinterest in drug-users to excuse a poorly executed investigation. Both in the released case file and in future responses to criticism, these authorities will be forced to rely on stated policies and law, established professional practice standards, and the factual record to justify their decision-making. Given what is currently known about the investigation, I’d be surprised if those resources provide them enough cover. I’ve read comments here saying there might not be a cover up, and the KCSO was just apathetic or incompetent, and I completely disagree. At the very least, the KCSO has been incredibly active in covering up its clear refusal to take initiative or to explore possible avenues of prosecution in Henry’s case. There is not a criminal charge listed in the case file summary memo that wasn’t first brought to the attention of the KCSO or the DA’s office by Katie Granju herself. Beyond the list of potential charges, they also relied on Katie to provide much of the evidence for their consideration names of witnesses, statements of witnesses, text messages, cell phones, permission to approach the victim, ad nauseum. And when the investigation failed to make progress, more than once the officials involved in the case blamed Henry’s family for withholding information or misleading them with inaccurate statements. To see the belated interviews, the press releases, and the summary memo in the released case file, it is clear that the DA’s office and the KCSO have spent more time and energy covering up their initial disinterest than they ever spent actively investigating the case itself.There may be no more cover-up than that. But at some point, Knox county citizens should start to wonder why their public officials found it worthwhile to invest so much time, energy, and money twisting Katie’s work into this dead-end case file. Wouldn’t it have saved everybody a lot of trouble if they had come clean a year ago and admitted to having dropped the ball?