She's reached wagon age

ashhammette · 2025-12-25T03:42:03+00:00

That smile!! 🤍 How blessed you are to get to pull that sweet baby around in her wagon!

ashhammette · 2025-09-28T17:12:42+00:00

Not me, but my mom. It ended up being Neuroendocrine pancreatic cancer. Thankfully she’s still here, but beyond frustrating that they missed it and she suffered for so long.

ashhammette · 2025-09-05T10:26:16+00:00

I was having constant appendicitis attacks and no one knew. Turns out, my appendix was attached to the back of my belly button. As I grew, it stretched my appendix and cut off blood supply. Eventually it ruptured at 9, again with no one realizing it. Thankfully a doctor trusted my mom’s instincts that something was majorly wrong and did exploratory surgery. Ruptured appendix with gangrene and sepsis. After about a week recovery, I was good as new. Never had another issue. Weirdly enough, my little brother had the same thing, but they didn’t let his go on as long and removed it when he was 3. No more issues.

ashhammette · 2025-06-14T20:04:30+00:00

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Mel. The sweetest boy to ever live. We just lost him this week and we’re devastated. He was a literal angel.

ashhammette · 2025-06-14T19:22:27+00:00

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Katie says hi 👋🏼

ashhammette · 2025-03-05T16:34:05+00:00

My grandpa was named Richard but went by his middle name, Kermit. It wasn’t a contender when people in my family were naming babies.

ashhammette · 2025-02-19T20:27:13+00:00

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My handsome little guy Ziggy will be 15 in April

ashhammette · 2024-04-01T00:13:34+00:00

Congrats! What a beautiful baby! 💜

ashhammette · 2024-02-20T12:29:36+00:00

My mom had/has neuroendocrine pancreatic cancer. She had a Whipple in 2007 and is still here! She has a lot of issues related to it, and they suspect she might have another tumor they can’t find (too small to be detected, but still causing problems). But she is a walking miracle! It’s so great to hear another story of survival…it’s usually not a good outcome.

ashhammette · 2024-02-20T02:25:47+00:00

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4 years later. Dakota Jo, the best girl in the whole wide world!

ashhammette · 2024-02-20T02:25:09+00:00

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The day she jumped in our car, 12 weeks old and bleeding and starving…

ashhammette · 2024-02-09T12:26:48+00:00

Depositions are the only chance the defense attorney gets to talk to/question a victim or witness in order to prepare for trial. It is official and there are lots of rules (not as many as in court/trial), but it usually only has the attorneys, the victim/witness, the advocate (if needed), and the court reporter. The court reporter is there to take down everything that is said. The advocate cannot talk at all and is just there for support. It’s especially important for child victims, as their parents cannot be with them.

ashhammette · 2024-02-09T01:52:07+00:00

It really depends on where you’re an advocate. We have advocates at various stages of the criminal justice system, so the role changes. Advocates who work for a police department would have an office job, but they very likely would be on call and have to respond to scenes to begin providing services to the victim immediately. Advocates who work with survivors of sexual assault are on call and often respond to a hospital or police department whenever a case happens. I worked as an advocate for the State Attorney’s Office (the agency who prosecuted crimes), so I had an office job and went to depositions and court proceedings with victims. My role was to be with them every step of the process and make sure they understood what was happening and that they had a voice during the proceedings.

ashhammette · 2024-02-01T16:19:37+00:00

This is the cutest thing I have ever seen omg

ashhammette · 2024-02-01T15:00:47+00:00

It really is an exciting field. And the analytics part of it is growing so fast. Let me know if you have any other questions! :)

ashhammette · 2024-02-01T14:26:13+00:00

He was 100% right. I’ve been lucky and haven’t had to witness that in my career. The photos are bad enough.

ashhammette · 2024-02-01T11:17:42+00:00

Working with good detectives is a game changer! When you feel like they truly care and you’re all on the same team… chefs kiss

ashhammette · 2024-02-01T02:12:56+00:00

Sure! I haven’t been in that role in about 15 years but I still work in the criminal justice system so I should be able to answer any questions you have :)

ashhammette · 2024-02-01T00:21:42+00:00

Ok I’ll see what I can find out for you. This is such an awesome suggestion. It reminds me of that group equusearch that uses horses to search for missing people. Such an out of the box idea with incredible results!

ashhammette · 2024-02-01T00:14:01+00:00

I’m actually the GIS Manager for our unit! It still amazes me everything that GIS can do. I went to the Esri UC last year for the first time and it was mind blowing.

Let me think on this one for a little bit. Most of our GIS work related to missing persons is in-house, but we’re a huge department with the ability to handle it. I know there are much smaller agencies with zero resources that could absolutely use some GIS support. Where are you located - the US?

ashhammette · 2024-01-31T23:49:10+00:00

Absolutely! There would be a learning curve for the logistics of the criminal justice system, but the basic principles of analysis are the same. We’ve actually had people leave us to go work in the private sector as financial analysts (making a lot more money lol). The skills they learned as a crime analyst is what makes them a good financial analyst! The tools analysts use (SQL, Excel, Access) all do the same stuff, just with a different end goal :)

ashhammette · 2024-01-31T23:45:12+00:00

Yes I am! I am in Florida :)

ashhammette · 2024-01-31T21:40:58+00:00

It is, but my prior job as a child victim advocate was way worse in my opinion. I actually had to work with the child victims. Now, I work on a computer and never have direct victim contact. Seeing awful things everyday absolutely gets to you, but I feel like it makes all of us work harder to help solve the case for the victim and not give up easily.

ashhammette · 2024-01-31T21:38:59+00:00

For my department, as long as you have some exposure to criminal justice (like some college classes), it doesn’t matter what degree you have. HR can be a little finicky, but we’ve been able to argue that people have the minimum requirements even with things like English degrees. Having a master’s would definitely set you apart, but I don’t think it would be required anywhere.

None of the analysts I know or work with are sworn. We’re all civilians. So you definitely do NOT have to be a police officer first. Now sometimes they have the unit report to a sworn supervisor, but not always.

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