Fairfax targeting drunk drivers today

By:Liz Essley | 11/05/11 12:10 PM
Examiner Staff Writer

Fairfax County police will set up a sobriety checkpoint Saturday as part of the "Checkpoint Strikeforce" campaign to target drunk drivers.

The state-wide campaign began 10 years ago, and police say it's worked: alcohol-related fatalities have dropped 23 percent in Virginia since 2001

WHO SAYS SO? THE COPS? WHAT ELSE DO YOU EXPECT THEM TO SAY? SOBRIETY CHECK POINTS ARE A THREAT TO A FREE PEOPLE? OF COURSE THEY'LL SAY ITS A SUCCESS......

BUT WHAT ABOUT IN FAIRFAX COUNTY? WHAT ARE THE STATS?

More than 32,000 people were arrested for drunk driving in Virginia in 2010, and more than 29,000 were convicted.

HOW MANY PEOPLE DRIVE IN VIRGINIA? WHAT PERCENTAGE HAS BEEN ARRESTED FOR DRUNK DRIVING?

WHAT PERCENTAGE WERE ARRESTED HERE IN FAIRFAX COUNTY

7,770.000 people in the state
5,400,000 licensed to drive

0.005% of the population has been convicted of drunk driving...justify the expense and use of man hours

Question, don't accept. The policeman is not your friend. Cops lie. Question what they tell you. Its the sacred role of the media.

But Fairfax police say there's more work to be done, since about 19 people a year die in drunk-driving-related crashes in Fairfax every year.

PROVE IT......

Brought to you by the Fairfax County Police …preying on the people to make a buck

This week’s child molestation charges….kid, the policeman IS NOT your friend

Atlanta GA cop sentenced to 20yrs for molestation & sexual battery of a 12yr-old disabled girl he met as school cop [0] http://bit.ly/rxOz0m

King Co WA deputy w/history of 26 findings of misconduct in 2yrs under investigation for sexual comments to teen [0] http://bit.ly/rJs9Pp

Murder

Santa Ana CA off-duty cop fatally shot unarmed man after mistaking him for car burglar when the man was was actually paid to help someone change a tire on the van the officer thought he was stealing. The story gets weirder after with the officer claiming he got in his personal car and chased him down when he ran and then, after catching him, shot the guy when he allegedly got behind the wheel of the officer’s car somehow. [0] http://lat.ms/tcZoYF

Soliciting crimes against nature

Pender County NC sheriff’s capt found guilty of soliciting crimes against nature, acquitted on prostitution charges [0] http://bit.ly/uFqPyP

Creepy cop behavior

St Albans WV police chief suspended while investigated for sexual harassment, had disciplinary history elsewhere [2] http://bit.ly/sxvI9K

Wells MN cop suspended 2 weeks & must attend alcohol treatment over unspecified “conduct unbecoming” allegations [3] http://bit.ly/vz5Kr4

Beating unarmed citizens and then hiding behind the law

Elizabeth NJ police lose suit for $1.5mil to man claiming cops fractured his skull by pistol-whipping him and then covered it up [3] http://bit.ly/uBDcII

Evergreen AL cop fired on allegations he tasered a councilman’s sister while she was restrained in chair at station [0] http://bit.ly/tiUugL

Los Vegas NV police & Clark Co NV sued by man attacked & arrested by cop for videotaping police from his own yard [1] http://bit.ly/s2sANE

Boynton Beach FL cop rehired after fired for brutality is fired again in other case, charged for 3rd incident w/cop [0] http://bit.ly/s5vy9K

Forgery

Frankfort NY cop indicted on forgery & official misconduct charges for trying to illegally obtain phone records [1] http://bit.ly/u37QU5

Illegal gun sales

Roseville CA cop subject of fed investigation into alleged illegal gun sales, several other warrants issued in case [1] http://bit.ly/uT15ch

Sacramento CA cop & several other area officers subject of fed investigation into alleged illegal weapons sales [1] http://bit.ly/rJo5G3

Slapp’n around the old wife a bit

US Dept of Defense police officer in Washington state was convicted of 1st & 2nd deg assault for throwing his girlfriend out of a 2nd floor window and injuring her. [0] http://bit.ly/tEE87n

Common thief

2 Fort Lauderdale FL cops in “Raiders” unit arrested for allegedly stealing cash & drugs from pain clinic patients [1] http://bit.ly/unuF0i

Houston TX cop gets deferred adjudication in deal for stealing from police union, dad was sentenced in Sept for same[0] http://bit.ly/vN9p04

False arrest

Clermont FL cop fired after probe into allegations he falsely arrested teen on drug charges & lied on report [0] http://sunsent.nl/rr4orx

San Francisco CA cop accused of falsely arresting store owner on video for what cop claimed was “fighting stance” [0] http://bit.ly/s3TO4b

Cops are terrified of the evidence…ironic ain’t it?

Weare NH police told people have right to record police by judge dismissing case against man for doing just that [3] http://bit.ly/vNB3uj

Harassment

North Cornwall PA cop charged for allegedly harassing store employee into dropping charges against family member [0] http://bit.ly/rP2rjt

Chatam-Kent ON cop charged w/criminal harassment & threatening in unspecified incident, officials won’t release name [3] http://bit.ly/tDjANY

Loon

Milwaukee WI cop accused of negligence by open carry group for unholstered gun in waistband when it discharged in mall[0] http://bit.ly/uuUdWO

Drunk/drugs

Vermont state trooper gets $500 fine after pleading guilty to DUI charge, resigned after arrest [0] http://bfpne.ws/uPXQOD

Austin TX cop suspended 10 days for letting drunk woman drive away, she later crashed in police parking garage [0] http://bit.ly/szC6Mb

Halton ON cop cited for careless driving after crashing into 2 other cars while transporting suspect [0] http://bit.ly/uU35CC

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.