Fairfax County Police Watch: COPS AND KIDS.........RUN CHILDREN! RUN!

A Bunn NC cop has been indicted on taking indecent liberties with a minor charges after he was fired as the result of an internal investigation into those allegations, though police are refusing to specify what those allegations are.

A Richmond VA deputy has been fired after his home was searched and he was arrested on possession of child pornography charges.

A Columbus OH cop has been suspended while he’s the subject of a criminal investigation into allegations that he had a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old girl which became apparent when police were investigating a burglary at thecop’s home.

A Troy NY cop has been arrested on charges including forcible touching and sexual abuse involving a 19-year-old girl that occurred at a store where thecop worked an off-duty security job.

An unspecified number of Denver CO cops are the subject of a lawsuit alleging that they forced their way into a family’s home then used excessive force on a man and two of his teen sons before arresting them on false charges of resisting arrest and assaulting ancop… even though the raid didn’t turn up any evidence of criminal activity. The charges were dismissed but the department is insisting theircops didn’t do anything wrong.

A Gainesville FL cop has been disciplined with a reprimand for unleashing his police dog on a 10-year-old boy on a bicycle, who’s legs were bitten, before thecop confirmed that an actual crime had occurred and that the boy matched the description of a suspect in the robbery call that he was responding to… it ended up that the boy wasn’t involved in any criminal activity.

A Seattle WA cop is the subject of renewed calls for federal intervention into the department over an alleged off-duty road rage incident where the cop pulled his gun on a 19-year-old man. Part of the complaint made by two former US Attorneys are that at least one detective attempted to cover up for that cop by shopping for charges against his victim. Apparently the detective tried to convince county prosecutors to charge the man with assaulting ancop and, when they refused, he tried to convince the city attorney to file misdemeanor charges against the man, all while ignoring and hiding testimony from witnesses claiming that thecop was the aggressor. The department’s Office of Professional Accountability is also being implicated for not properly investigating the allegations during an internal review and the chief for using the resultant flawed investigation to keep records sealed.

Morrogh finds cop he doesn’t love. In other news, hell freezes.

Probe of fatal police shooting goes to federal authorities

By Justin Jouvenal/Post

The Fairfax County prosecutor has turned over the investigation of a fatal police shooting of an unarmed Springfield man to federal authorities, citing complications with the five-month-old case.

Commonwealth’s Attorney Ray Morrogh said the U.S. attorney’s office for the Eastern District of Virginia has agreed to continue the probe into the death of 46-year-old John Geer, who was shot during a standoff with Fairfax County police in August. No one has been charged in the incident.

“There is a conflict of interest that has arisen in the case,” Morrogh said Thursday. “And there is a second potential conflict of interest that has arisen out of my office. . . . This is the prudent thing to do.”

Morrogh declined to describe the nature of the conflicts because the investigation is ongoing. The U.S. attorney’s office said Thursday that it could not confirm or deny any investigation or comment on pending investigations.

Police went to Geer’s Pebble Brook Court home on Aug. 29 because of a report of a domestic disturbance. Geer’s father, Don Geer, said his son was upset because his girlfriend, the mother of his two children, had decided to leave him.

John Geer had thrown his girlfriend’s belongings in the front yard. She called police and told them that Geer had a firearm. Police said they tried for about 50 minutes to persuade Geer to leave the home, but he refused.

Don Geer said he watched the climax of the encounter. He said that he could not hear what officers were saying to his son but that he saw him standing with empty hands resting on top of a screen door at the home’s entrance.

At some point, John Geer began to slowly lower his hands and an officer opened fire, hitting Geer in the chest, his father said. Geer retreated inside and closed the door. A SWAT team eventually entered the home and found Geer dead.

Don Geer said detectives later told him that his son did not have a gun on him at the time of the shooting but that there was a holstered handgun a couple of steps from the front door.

Don Geer said it appeared to him that the shooting was unjustified, but he was unsure what to make of the probe being turned over to federal authorities.

“I don’t know whether that’s good or bad — if I had a better idea of why they are doing it, I could form an opinion,” he said.

Geer and friends of his son have been critical of how long the investigation has taken, but Morrogh said police and prosecutors were working to explore all the evidence. He did not think federal prosecutors would have to start from scratch.

“No one wants these things to linger on,” Morrogh said.

Our ink will outlast his career

Under the reign of former Chief of Police Rhorer the Fairfax County Police arrested a man for not wearing clothes in his house while he made coffee, set up an eye doctor on a gambling charge and then used the SWAT team to kill him. An investigation into the charge that the Doctor’s primary clients were cops has never been investigated. The police gunned down an emotionally unstable man because cop who shot him wrongly assumed the man was trying to escape. He wasn’t. The cops also shot dead four other citizens under highly questionable circumstances. The department under Rhorer was sued multiple times by citizens. So did they fire Rhorer? Naw they promoted him. According to news reports Rhorer draws a salary of $191,168 per year as Deputy Fairfax County Executive as well as a concurrent pension from the Fairfax County police of $173000 per year.

Occupation by force

According to the most recent U.S. Census figures, nearly one in five Fairfax residents (17.5 percent) is of Asian descent while Hispanics make up nearly 16 percent of Fairfax’s overall population. Those numbers drop considerably when applied to the Fairfax County Police Department, where only 4.3 percent of officers are Asian and 4.1 percent Hispanic. White officers make up 84 percent of Fairfax County’s 1,360-member police department, significantly higher than the county’s general population (54 percent white). Almost 90% of the force lives outside the county.