Fairfax County Police Watch: 11/18/19

I am an alt-right conservative and I don’t have problem with a useful idiot (Blame Stalin not me for that term) running the Fairfax Prosecutors office. For one thing, he isn’t one of the boys, he’s an outsider who won’t play golf with the God-forsaken chief of Police so they can become pals and work on deals to protect the Fairfax County Police.

Secondly, he replaces the corrupt Ray Morrogh which is wonderful and renews my belief in the democratic system. Morrogh was crooked when it came to doing what he was told to do by the cops, he’ll have to screw him into the ground when he dies. And he was useless. Your average wet mops is more useful than Morrogh.

Someone in the police department told Morrogh to make a public statement that Descano “is completely unqualified for the office of commonwealth attorney. This man is not fit to hold office in Fairfax County.” Talk about the ball of an alley cat.

Morrogh was also told to say “I’ve dedicated 36 years of my life to keeping you safe in Fairfax County” ….and he should have added “And I never once prosecuted a crooked cop or turned away a case they presented” but the pisser is that; “I love my country I love this county. I’m asking you, vote for Jonathan Fahey for all the victims in this county.”……this from a guy who created victims by turning a blind eye to the cops blowing away eye doctors, framing innocent school teachers etc. But it’s the idiocy of the statement if you vote for the other guy, your not a good American.

Descano should also go over the list of Morrogh’s donors. It makes for interesting reading.

Descano is the right man for the job at the right time, but he won’t have much effect in changing anything. The Fairfax County Police are a political gang, they play the game and they play very well in order to protect themselves. Depending on how far out of line Descano goes, they’ll simply overwhelm him with fifty years of community and political contacts or have a work slowdown and blame him or they’ll figure out a way to arrest him. They’ve done it in the past and they’ll do it again. Descano would be well advised to keep his phone camera nearby when driving alone, and, as crazy as it might sound, he should probably buy a pistol. He wouldn’t be the first prosecutor in American history to get blown away the cops and the Fairfax County Police have set and murdered before and then tried to cover it up.

The so-called Police Benevolent Association of Fairfax County President, those would be charged with protecting the cops from the outside world doesn’t like Descano, which does my heart good. They don’t like him because his plans are to stop the cops from arresting anyone for almost any reason and getting away with it. The cop-protectors union has accused the man of plotting to run down to the county jail, wild eyes wide and unblinking, laughing like a mad man, unlocking all the cells and hugging the bad guys before they return to rob and rape society.

The truth is pretty far from that. “I will tackle mass incarceration by ending the practices of charging felonies where misdemeanors are sufficient and charging misdemeanors where a dismissal or diversion would be more appropriate,” Descano said “The numbers don’t lie. Far too often race and ethnicity are determining factors in the outcome of one’s experience with the criminal justice system.”

He’s right although he shouldn’t have stopped there. He should have placed the blame for those numbers where it belongs, on arrest happy cops who work in Fairfax County and live in a different county.

Officials say a possible data breach may have compromised the personal information of more than 500 employees of a Virginia police department.

Fairfax County Police Chief Edwin Roessler Jr. told the Washington Post that he doesn’t have any reports that officers’ personal information has been exploited.

But the chief says he is concerned after learning that officers’ names, dates of birth and Social Security numbers may have been compromised by the potential breach at a neighboring police department.

Roessler says the data was on a missing memory stick that contained the email inbox of the Purcellville police chief. Roessler said it wasn’t clear if there was a reason for the data to be in the other chief’s email or if Fairfax County also had a data breach.

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.