Fairfax County Police Watch: This week’s cop glorification filler piece

The print media is our last hope, when they leap into bed with the cops and do their bidding, we're all screwed

Fairfax officer honored for traffic safety work

Examiner Staff Writer

Joe Moore knows Fairfax County residents spend a lot of time in traffic. (Even though like 80% of the force Moore probably doesn’t live in the county….now there’s a story)

For the past nine years, the county police officer has been trying to make them safer while on the roads, and his efforts appear to be paying off. (Because……………………………..why? )

Moore was recently named the Virginia Association of Chiefs of Police's traffic safety officer of the year. (Is this why?) And, he says, the number of traffic fatalities is going down (Prove it) while the number of citations written is going up as cops crack down on distracted-driving offenses. (No, no, no, wrong, wrong, wrong. The cops, almost 2000 of them with a $225,000,000 budget, an air force and a navy, have nothing else to do but to prey on the real citizens of Fairfax County )

As a member of the department's motorcycle squad, Moore has led educational and enforcement initiatives in what he sees as the one of the department's most important divisions. (Wrong, Moore’s job is to sit around on his government worker ass until we need him, that’s all we want him to do…… educational and enforcement initiatives are the work of elected officials not the cops)

Traffic is "the number one complaint from citizens in this area," he said. (Cops lie. Prove it)

But the overabundance of cars on the roads also means there's plenty of unsafe behaviors, and that's what Moore is trying to curb.

He has developed distracted-driving enforcement training for fellow officers, (A dangerously broad term “distracted-driving” Cops lie) worked on county and nationwide "click it or ticket" campaigns and hit the streets to cite distracted motorists. Over the past year, he has helped lead a Fairfax police initiative that issues tickets to drivers who don't "pay full time and attention" to the road, which can include behaviors like texting, talking on the phone and eating.

"It's become so commonplace that while you're behind the wheel, that you use that time to get other stuff done," said Moore, who called distracted driving an "epidemic." (Cops lie. Prove it)

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.