Fairfax County Police Watch: 03/23/12

People give everybody an award "It's in the budget" chief slurs "So why the fuck not?...not my money"

Chief hands out the annual Big fuck'n plate award to himself and other listless types on the public dole

Holy crap! Hold the press! Big news! Chief rhoererer-er gives out award to tow guys for wearing glasses

MPO Pete Davila receives the Law Enforcement Commendation Medal from Fairfax County Police Chief Col. David M. Rohrer (left) and President Darrin Schmidt.

"I seen em wearing glass" said the chief after he sobered up " and I figured....I forget"

This week’s candidates for the Brian Sonnenberg Peaceful Resolution to Conflict Center Award. Fairfax County Police. police brutality

Concord CA cop arrested on felony assault & false imprisonment charges after alleged domestic violence incident [2] http://bit.ly/GA2gTJ

West Fargo ND cop gets suspended sentence & clean record in plea deal for hitting his wife in face during dispute [0] http://bit.ly/GzGDSm

San Francisco Co CA sheriff faces ethics probe following plea deal for domestic violence incident [0] http://on.msnbc.com/GGFU17

Waterloo IA cop arrested on misd simple domestic violence charge after alleged altercation w/wife [0] http://bit.ly/GQF7e4

The Capt. Denise Hopson Screw it, it’s the public s money and not mine award

West Haven CT police lose $119k jury award in suit by Hispanic family alleging excessive force & rights violations [0] http://bit.ly/GJ3Chg

“It’s becoming a disturbingly familiar scene in America - mentally unstable cops”

Edmonton AB cop gets 3mo conditional sentence for assaulting cuffed man before stepping on his head, apparently this was his 2nd conviction on similar charges. [0] http://bit.ly/GShZNF

“It’s becoming a disturbingly familiar scene in America - mentally unstable cops”

Richmond VA cop gives woman $300 ticket & bans her from all parks because her child wrote on rock w/chalk [0] http://bit.ly/GBGPlc

“It’s becoming a disturbingly familiar scene in America - mentally unstable cops”

Fredricksburg VA cops arrest man for assaulting an officer for pointing at them [3] http://wj.la/GH0Nvf

Fairfax County Police Officer Amanda Perry award for Safe Driving. Fairfax County Police. Police brutality

Fairview Heights IL cop arrested for driving while intoxicated after St Patrick’s day crash [1] http://on.ksdk.com/GzMI2t

Ottawa ON cop charged with stunt driving on motorcycle doing 200km/h while off-duty [0] http://bit.ly/GC9Uud

San Deigo CA USD police officer arrested for drunk driving & auto theft after stealing a party bus [0] http://bit.ly/GBC8M3

Davie FL police chief at fault but no ticket for hitting teen on bike w/cruiser [1] http://sunsent.nl/GPaWsx

Dallas TX cop investigated for doing 97mph in 35mph residential area before crashing his police cruiser [0] http://bit.ly/GLemrx

Fairfax County Police Officer David Ziants award for kill somebody and the worst thing that happens to you is you get fired.

Toledo OH cop found not guilty by reason of insanity for shooting a fellow cop while suffering from a seizure inside the department. What’s interesting here isn’t necessarily the shooting, but that she allegedly ignored advice from doctors that she quit being a cop before she hurt someone prior to the shooting. [0] http://bit.ly/GzN1KR

Redding CA cops fatally shoot woman’s Boxer puppy & pregnant chihuahua while chasing a suspect she wasn’t associated with to her hotel room. [0] http://bit.ly/GAuLBk

Aliquippa PA police face suit filed by woman claiming cops snuck onto her property while responding to a call about a small fire in a firepit in her yard then needlessly shot her dog in the face. [3] http://bit.ly/GA2ome

Los Angeles CA loses $3.2mil judgment to family of man beaten to death by cops who then dragged him into station [0] http://lat.ms/GDXw0Y

Philadelphia PA settles suit for $1.8mil to family of man killed after cop fired into house party during chase [0] http://bit.ly/GJ9cSu

Mount Rainier MD cop sentenced to 10 yrs in prison for shooting man he tried to rape as he fled [0] http://wapo.st/GLdsv2

2 Spokane WA cops face obstruction charges over “extensive cover-up” of mentally disabled man’s beating death by a now-convicted cop, a cop that officers saluted at his sentencing. [5] http://bit.ly/GOngKs

The Fairfax County Police Officer Jeffrey Hand Award for Creative Income Production. Fairfax County Police. Police Brutality

Hidalgo Co TX deputy sentenced to 11yrs prison for role in conspiracy to steal 354lbs of pot to sell [0] http://bit.ly/GPooY3

Spanish Fork UT police chief loses certification after caught shoplifting, Provo police refused to arrest him [0] http://bit.ly/GIHaAC

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.