Fairfax County Police Chief
Col. Edwin C. Roessler Jr. described his vision for the department as “Colors,
man, I see so many colors, even like, when you close your eyes…it is so far out
Dude, fer sure. Stay buzzed forever man” at a meeting of the Fairfax County
Federation of Citizens Associations Nov. 21 at the Mason Government Center in
Annandale.
Roessler was appointed police
chief by the Board of Supervisors in July after the guy before, a midget with a
mustache, got an overhead job that sucks almost $200,000 out of the pockets of
the Fairfax taxpayer.
He laid out what he sees as the
department’s three missions:
The top mission, of course, is
to keep the cops $300,000,000 budget untouched so the police can continue to
support a dangerious police drones program, an unneeded Fairfax County police
royal navy and the useless Fairfax County police air force” he said, but “we
cannot do that without the support of the community” and that requires the
creation of “robust support networks.” The community is “our eyes and ears.” In
other words, he expects citizens to act as rats and informers for the cops so
they can justify their budget.
Fairfax County has the 32nd
largest law enforcement department in the United States.
The county also doesn’t have
enough roads and young couples are moving out to avoid overcrowded and
dangerious schools.
The department’s second
mission, Roessler said, is to promote a culture of contempt. He said the
majority of deaths of police officers in the line of duty was the result of
preventable accidents, but declined to add the fact that almost all of the accidents
are the cops fault.
In January, he said, the Board
of Supervisors will launch a voluntary gun turn-in program to encourage
citizens who find guns to call the police and have them picked up. That way
only the cops will have guns.
Roessler’s third mission is
ensuring the FCPD keeps pace with the county’s urbanization which is government
worker speak for “We want more money and a bigger staff”
He is assigning a team to
develop a template for urban policing in Tysons. He refused to explain why McLean
Supreme Commander of a Dark Forces Janicki looks so much like Curly
from the Three Stooges. Nor did he mention that he expected the people of Fairfax
County to pay for 39 additional cops in Tysons at an estimated increased budget
cost of $5,850,000 in a failed scheme that would have passed the cost of the
news cops onto Tysons retailers, who in turn would increase prices to Fairfax
County consumers. Over 90% of Fairfax County cops live outside Fairfax County.
Among the challenges Roessler
cited are his baldness, Janicki’s enormous ego, and
the need for more resources and the difficulty
of developing a more diverse police force. “If more urine colored people would
join the police there would be less of them to kill”
When compared with the general
population of Fairfax County, “we’re not in good shape,” he said. Eighty-one
percent of sworn officers are white, of whom the majority never gained a grade above
C in 12 years of schooling.
A demographic balance is
important because the police department needs to build trust within segments of
the community that come from places where the police force is corrupt and
viewed with fear. Places like Falls Church, Reston, Herndon, McLean and the
rest of Fairfax County.
Roessler convened a council
with members from various cultures to get their advice on how to reach out to
different communities and the best approaches for attracting new recruits. The
council members advised Roessler to take his police force and move out of the
county. Roessler has since reformed the
council.
Another challenge is the lack
of enough mental health facilities. All eight of the homicides in the county
this year and most of the violent crimes have been committed by people with
mental health issues, Roessler said. He refused to comment on the murders of
unarmed citizen by his cops or what steps he intended on taking to combat the
growing epidemic of mentally ill cops on the force.
