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

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

NAACP gives Fairfax officials middling grades on criminal-justice issues


·         by BRIAN TROMPETER, Staff Writer
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A first-ever report by the Fairfax County branch of the NAACP gave most county  supervisors and two top public-safety officials mostly mediocre to poor marks in their handling of criminal-justice issues.
“It was an idea when I took over in January as a way to hold county leadership accountable and help members with their advocacy,” said Kofi Annan, the group’s president.
The NAACP’s “2016-2017 Criminal Justice County Report Card” graded all Board of Supervisors members, plus the county’s police chief and sheriff. None received an overall grade of “A.” Three got “B” grades, three “C-plus” marks, three “C” grades, one a “D-plus” and two a “D.” The report did not hew to partisan lines, as Supervisors Patrick Herrity (R-Springfield) and Kathy Smith (D-Sully) received the lowest marks.
Criminal-justice reform has been a hot topic in Fairfax County, following some fatal police shootings and sheriff’s deputies involvement in the deaths  of an inmate at the county’s Adult Detention Center and a mentally ill man in Merrifield.
The report evaluated the policy positions county officials adopted over the last year, their on-the-record statements, votes during public meetings (if any) and interviews with each.
While county supervisors have hired an independent police auditor and set up a Civilian Review Panel to examine police use-of-force cases, the NAACP’s report, released Sept. 18, found there need to be more reforms and quicker.
Fairfax County must hire more minority police officers and sheriff’s deputies, equip officers with body-worn cameras and investigate the disproportionate number of use-of-force cases involving African-Americans, the report determined. African-Americans are only 8 percent of the county’s population, but were involved in 47 percent of police use-of-force cases, according to the report.
Fairfax County Police Chief Edwin Roessler Jr. seems genuinely to desire increased minority recruitment, but the department is not addressing a “trust deficit” that may be keeping those number low, Annan said.
The police force is 15-percent minority, the same as in 2013, and Latinos especially are underrepresented, the report stated.
“It’s the elephant in the room,” he said. “A lot of African-Americans don’t like or trust the police. If they don’t talk about that as a barrier to recruitment, they’ll continue to have these problems.”
Law-enforcement personnel should examine their biases, overt or latent, and endeavor not to let them affect their interactions with minorities, Annan said.
“It’s just a fact of life: We all do see race, subconsciously or not, and treat each other differently,” he said. “If you don’t knowledge stereotypes, you may end up with a force that has a negative effect on a community, even if it’s not intentional.”
Many studies show that people tend to see African-American youths as being older than they are, and give them aggressive descriptions, he added.
“It’s not unique to police,” Annan said. “It’s a product of the history of our country and their portrayal in the community.”
The Fairfax County NAACP plans to issue criminal-justice reports annually, as well as ones pertaining to affordable housing and education, Annan said.
While county officials have taken steps toward alleviating some of the ongoing issues, “we want to continue having them move in the right direction,” he said.

The Sun Gazette will list the NAACP’s grades of local officials, plus any received responses, in a separate article.

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New Jersey police detective fathers child with 15-year-old, is charged with sexual assault of minor
The police officer received multiple honors for his work.
His numerous gun and drug arrests at one point earned him “Officer of the Week” in the Camden County Police Department.
But he also fathered a child with a 15-year-old girl, and now Camden County Police Department Det. Rafael Martinez Jr. is facing charges for sexually assaulting a minor, according to the county prosecutor.
Martinez, 32, reportedly admitted to being the father of the baby. The 15-year-old girl, identified only as E.L., told authorities that she and Martinez had a sexual relationship from September 2016 to August 2017, according to New Jersey newspapers.
The police officer was suspended after he was arrested on Sept. 12. He earns almost $66,000 a year, according to the Courier Post.
Martinez signed the baby’s birth certificate when the child was born in mid-August, the Courier Post said. An affidavit that is part of the criminal complaint against Martinez said the teenager told authorities that the police officer was “the father of her child and that they had sex on multiple occasions at his home.”
A court-ordered DNA test confirmed Martinez as the father, reports added. 

Fairfax County police officer pleads ‘no contest’ to reckless driving charge


By Dana Hedgpeth September 14 at 9:20 AM

A Fairfax County police officer pleaded no contest in an accident with a minivan that occurred as he was speeding in a cruiser without emergency equipment on.
Officials said the incident involving Officer Pshko Siteki, who has been on the force for two years, happened Feb. 18. Siteki was heading to a call for a disorderly conduct incident when his cruiser struck a minivan near Leesburg Pike and Patrick Henry Drive in the Seven Corners area.
On Thursday, Siteki made the no-contest plea in Fairfax County District Court and was fined $250 by a judge.
Siteki did not have the emergency equipment on his cruiser in use during the incident although he was driving 68 miles per hour in an area where the speed limit is 40 miles per hour, police said. The driver of the minivan, a 53-year-old man, and the officer were taken to a hospital. The minivan driver had extensive injuries, officials said.
Siteki had been served a summons for a misdemeanor of reckless driving.
There was an in-car video system in the officer’s cruiser but because of the damage from the crash police were unable to retrieve it.
In a statement when the incident happened, Fairfax County Police Chief Edwin C. Roessler Jr. said, “We take the safety of our officers and members of this community very seriously.”

Officials said they have placed Siteki on “restricted duty without police powers, pending the outcome of the ongoing administrative investigation.” Siteki had been on administrative leave following the crash.