Fairfax County Police Watch: And yet the Fairfax County Police don't need oversight...what are the odds?

Memphis TN cop sentenced to 2yrs for beating a transgender detainee in face w/cuffs on video & tax evasion for claiming 99 dependents on his W4. [0] http://bit.ly/kTipWy

Pima Co AZ SWAT deputies fired 71 shots after one deputy’s gun misfired during a questionable raid. The deputies are then accused of denying medical treatment to the man they shot 60 times who later died after over an hour of being denied treatment. The sheriff’s office is refusing to comment about the case after the official version of events changed several times. [4] http://bit.ly/ilucS1

A Hall County GA deputy has been sentenced to probation in a plea deal for sexually battering a 3yr-old girl. [0] http://bit.ly/j30PFt

2 Hattiesburg MS cops fired for using excessive force on suspect, a 3rd officer was suspended 20 days for firing his gun in the air at a party while off-duty. [1] http://bit.ly/maaMrt

Colorado Springs CO cop charged w/possession of child porn now accused of groping boys during what parents were told would be “ringworm exams” at the school where he also worked as a coach. [3] http://bit.ly/m5fVdx

Newton Co IN sheriff says he will conduct warrantless searches after that state’s supreme court ruled that resisting illegal searches by police was illegal. [0] http://bit.ly/md2iqj

Waterloo Regional ON police sued for “freezing” family’s home for 3 days in fruitless search for cop’s missing gun [0] http://bit.ly/mDRm3y

Wahpeton ND police officer suspended 5days after arresting teen for videotaping him & asking him questions [0] http://bit.ly/mTbq8V

5 San Francisco CA cops shown on video allegedly stealing laptop & camera after questionable search of hotel room [4] http://bit.ly/iJ7S4m

Tempe AZ police detective arrested on credit card theft, evidence tampering, forgery, theft & burglary charges [0] http://bit.ly/l3bMUm

Brooksville FL police officer fired for trying to forcibly kiss a female inmate who was cleaning police dept [0] http://bit.ly/mLeynR

Canton IL police officer suspended and charged w/retail theft of under $150 from a local Wal-Mart [1] http://bit.ly/jTeuY4

St John Parish LA deputy arrested after admitting to & returning over $20k in fines she stole to feed drug habit [0] http://bit.ly/jvlRfI

Slaton TX police officer resigns while the subject of unspecified investigation by US Dept of Homeland Security [2] http://bit.ly/j3L74o

Pekin IL police captain on paid leave while subject of unspecified criminal investigation by state police [2] http://bit.ly/mqTgPo

US FBI agent in NYC charged with trying to protect informant he had affair with from charges & lying about it [0] http://nydn.us/k2rRbW

Brownsville TX police officer indicted on a barratry charge on allegations he sold information in exchange for cash [1] http://bit.ly/iIhURl

Margate FL police officer arrested on DV charge for allegedly hitting girlfriend in the face during argument [0] http://cbsloc.al/lE4Tm8

New Jersey DHS police capt (they have a police force?!?) arrested on time sheet fraud & database misuse allegations [0] http://bit.ly/jGbK6X

Brantford ON cop pleads to internal charges alleging personal use of police database & inappropriate communications [0] http://bit.ly/iLzRpV

Oakland CA settles suit for $610k to man badly injured when police cruiser crashed into his car [0] http://bit.ly/jOjsEh

Fife WA cop resigns but won’t be charged after drinking 3-4 double vodkas while on call then crashing police car [0] http://bit.ly/jZYUFU

A Kershaw County SC deputy has been sentenced to 5 years in prison for violating the rights of a handcuffed detainee who’s leg was broken when the deputy repeatedly hit him with a metal baton on video. [0] http://bit.ly/lzVcpr

8 Ottawa ON police officer is the subject of a lawsuit by a woman claiming she was beaten & forcibily stripped on video by cops with a history of abuses. [3] http://bit.ly/kIud9B

A Bloomington IL police officer resigned while under investigation for allegedly lifting a 7-year-old special needs student up by his throat and slamming him into a chair at a school while the student was allegedly having a siezure. [1] http://bit.ly/jIpzVj

A Pike County IL deputy was sentenced to probation after pleading guilty to forcing a woman to perform oral sex at traffic stop [0] http://bit.ly/m5r9Wx

Saratoga County NY deputy arrested for allegedly menacing a woman w/a gun & endangering her 6yr-old child [1] http://bit.ly/jMd9Rz

Madison Co AL deputy arrested for allegedly breaking into apt full of female college students & threatening them [1] http://bit.ly/jpTKO2

Thomas Co GA deputy arrested after home raided on allegations he stole $13k in goods from church & school [0] http://bit.ly/isX1FE

San Antonio TX cop already on leave after DUI arrest in Feb is arrested again for suspicion of drunk driving [0] http://bit.ly/kazG8f

Marion County IN deputy arrested on drunk driving charges during off-duty traffic stop [0] http://bit.ly/kUeIJC

San Francisco CA undercover police officers are accused of excessive force & lying on reports in the latest in a long series of surveillance video released by the public defenders office. [3] http://bit.ly/iCBD8E

Seattle WA police gang detective who made national news when he threatened to “beat the Mexican piss” out of an innocent man before stomping on him in a videotaped incident has been suspended 30 days. In response, the victim’s lawyer announced that a tort claim was filed against the city over the incident and a lawsuit will follow if the city doesn’t respond to it by Monday. Meanwhile, no word on any disciplinary action against him on allegations he choked a cuffed man in the back of a cruiser or about a fellow officer who was shown on that video stomping on the man’s leg. [0] http://bit.ly/m4dFD4

San Bernardino County CA deputies account of a taser-related death during a traffic stop is allegedly being contradicted by witnesses according to the man’s father, who happens to be a long-time volunteer officer with the sheriff’s department. [3] http://lat.ms/ksC5O5

A Harrodsburg KY police officer who ran that department’s DARE program was indicted on 148 counts of sexual abuse involving kids under age of 16 and 18. [0] http://bit.ly/jeoXpY

The King County WA sheriff’s department is being sued by a former deputy who claims that he suffered retaliation after he testified against a deputy who was accused of punching an innocent man in the face for talking back when he was falsely accused of a crime by a former girlfriend. The prosecutor failed to win a conviction in that case. [5] http://bit.ly/kWVFYU

Radcliff KY cop arrested for computer solicitation of a minor involving undercover cop posing as 14yr-old [0] http://bit.ly/mgf9Th

Stamford CT police dog attacks female jogger running past cop’s home, hospitalized w/30 stitches in leg [0] http://bit.ly/l4u9zq

Henrico VA police officer’s home raided by state police on sealed warrant involving computer and camera equipment [2] http://bit.ly/iwMVvG

Whitley Co KY sheriff pleads guilty to federal extortion, drug distribution & money laundering charges [0] http://bit.ly/mLTiKu

Georgia State University GA cop charged w/theft for stealing tools from mechanics at off-duty security job [0] http://bit.ly/j0OHva

Lincoln NE cop who resigned during unspecified investigation is arrested on felony theft by deception charges [2] http://bit.ly/kR9LwF

Camden NJ cop sentenced to probation & fired for staging a shooting in an effort to qualify for early retirement [0] http://bit.ly/kIuMvS

Shawnee Co KS sheriff’s lt fined for disobeying an officer during argument at accident scene while off-duty [0] http://bit.ly/lwAicF

Bridgeport CT police spokesman suspended for email suggesting use of generic cartoon mug shots w/Hispanic names [0] http://bit.ly/iV4LbI

Nebraska State trooper resigns while on admin leave for unspecified reasons, 2 criminal cases dismissed as result [3] http://bit.ly/m98Khj

Pocahontas AR police chief suspended while subject of unspecified FBI & state police investigation [2] http://bit.ly/j5kvUl

Bancroft MI police chief under investigation on allegations that he supplied false information on grant application [0] http://bit.ly/kOKaS6

Roseville CA settles suit for $490k to 3 cops claiming police discriminated against cops they believed were gay [0] http://bit.ly/l5d1HO

Cottonwood Heights UT cop gets 80hr community service & must repay $900 in plea deal for misuse of public funds [0] http://bit.ly/iSqhuE

2 Antioch CA cops already charged w/selling drugs stolen from evidence now accuse each other of running a brothel [0] http://bit.ly/k8CqaI

Oxford MI police officer resigns in lieu of firing after investigated for shooting police dispatcher with a taser [0] http://bit.ly/mC2ZoI

Aurora CO cop charged w/reckless endangerment & child abuse after crashing while drag racing w/2 kids in his car [0] http://bit.ly/kW186Y

And finally, a Detroit MI police officer has been suspended after fellow officers allegedly caught him having sex in a police cruiser with a transvestite prostitute while he was on duty. [0] http://bit.ly/it1a9K

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.