Fairfax County SWAT teams kills a dog their two for two

Well, that got swept under the carpet awfully fast, didn't it?

 

Yet another drunk and driving FCPO

 Yet another Fairfax County cop was arrested for drunk driving….young people….pay attention to this, the department has more than its share of drunk cop incidents….ask yourself, “Why are they drunk? Do I want to work in place populated by drunk people carrying loaded weapons?”

In this case Prince William Police arrested FCPO Nathan Jones, for driving under the influence. 

Back in September they arrested a separate FCPO for drunk driving. 

No one wants to work for the Fairfax County Police...do you blame them?

  

 

Short nearly 200 officers, Fairfax PD staffing 'at a crisis level' ahead of holiday season

FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. (7News) — Thanksgiving tends to be one of the most dangerous and deadly times on U.S. roads due to increases in impaired drivers and reckless driving.

Going into the holiday season, the Fairfax County Police Department is facing a shortage of police officers – officers who are responsible for enforcing traffic laws and getting drunk drivers off the roads.

Fairfax County Police Chief Kevin Davis said recruiting classes have gotten larger. However, the Fairfax County Police Department is still facing a staffing crisis.

“When you’re down around 200 officers and you’ve disbanded your specialty units, of course, it’s at a crisis level,” Fairfax County Supervisor Pat Herrity told 7News on Tuesday.

Herrity says The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors needs to focus on keeping current officers by paying them more.

“We’ve seen increases in crime, we’ve seen increased traffic accidents and pedestrians fatalities,” said Herrity. “Public safety isn’t something you can ignore. It will catch up to you and it is catching up with us.”

7News was the first to report the staffing emergency at FCPD over the summer.

At that time, FCPD was short 189 officers, Davis told 7News in August.

Vacancies later reached above 200, according to police sources. Now FCPD is short 192 officers, Davis told 7News on Tuesday.

“We’ve still seen a higher rate of resignations than retirements,” Davis told 7News. “We are doing all we can to keep people focused on the value of policing. It’s still the greatest job in the world. We just need to increase the volume of the right candidates who want to do this job for the right reasons.”

Davis hopes new recruitment efforts, including a $15,000 signing bonus for new officers, will help.

“This is a hot market and we are all in competition with each other. The application pool has dwindled over the past couple of years,” Davis said. “We have great support from the Board of Supervisors and the community at large. So we have to consider many things like compensation and financial incentives and other benefits to attract people to the job because a police applicant in 2022 has a varied menu of choices about where to go and young people are paying attention more now than they ever have.”

Fairfax Co. Police Chief Kevin Davis speaks to 7News on how the department is handling a staffing crisis (7News)

“In about a week and a half that 192 will go to 154 when we start our largest police academy class in several years,” added Davis.

“They're still in a crisis level,” said Herrity. “We're still around 200 short. Through September, we had 101 officers leave. We've had a couple of recruit classes, some transfers into a total of about 57. We got one more recruit class coming in. We're going to have some additional resignations. So we're still at a net loss on officers. We still got work to do.”

Herrity praised the $15,000 signing bonus for new officers, but he said it came too late. He blamed the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors for failing to act quickly enough. The Board of Supervisors is led by Chairman Jeffrey McKay.

“I think it was late, but I'm happy it was there,” said Herrity. “I wish we had given them the salary increases. The best thing we can do is retain our current officers. That's going to help a lot with bringing new officers in, but we really need to focus on retaining current officers.”

“There were some ideas put on the table last budget,” Herrity added. “Salary increase that got cut in half and spread across all public safety agencies rather than given to the patrol staff where we really need them - Second Lieutenant below. We could extend Drop. That was also on the table. So there are some creative things that we should and can be doing. And I hope that the board will come around on it.”

Herrity predicts more officers will have to retire by the end of the year.

“Simply, [the ] Drop [program] is officers pick their retirement date three years out, and they can't work past that date,” he said. “So they’re not allowed to work past that three years. We can extend that by a year or two years with literally no cost to the government.”

“And the board said no?” 7News' Nick Minock asked.

“And the board said no,” Herrity replied.

One place some officers have gone to is Amazon.

“Amazon is certainly a challenge not just for Fairfax but for police departments around the country,” Davis said. "We have to be creative We have to be the employer of choice and there is a commitment to do so.”

But Supervisor Herrity expressed doubt that the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors has that commitment.

“We need to get back to public safety being a priority in Fairfax County," said Herrity.

Fairfax County is beginning its budget process soon. 7News will let you know if the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors approves pay raises for current officers - or not - to address the staffing crisis.

“We hope we are turning the corner a little bit on recruiting,” said Davis. “We had five Fairfax County police officers who resigned in the last year who came back, so they came back to the job. So that’s exciting. The grass isn’t always greener.”

Good work Farifax County PD.......

  

'Everything is not OK. It's not anywhere near OK' | Major crimes are up in Fairfax County

  

FAIRFAX, Va. (7News) — With five weeks to go until the end of the year, crimes against people and crimes against property are up in Fairfax County, Va.

That’s according to the latest data from the Fairfax County Police Department.

These crimes include arson, burglary, vandalism, robbery, motor vehicle theft, assault, homicides, kidnapping, sex offenses and other major crimes.

“We have for the first time ever, have an Auto Crimes Enforcement squad. All they do is go after car thieves,” said Kevin Davis, the Police Chief of the Fairfax County Police Department.

Davis said this has helped reduce skyrocketing auto thefts --- although he said auto thefts are still up over last year.

“At the end of March, across the county, [auto thefts] were up about 45%,” said Davis. “And this Auto Crimes Enforcement squad has driven that down and we stand at about ten percent increase in auto theft.”

“We are challenged by auto theft,” added Davis. “We are challenged by the theft of catalytic converters. We are challenged by domestic violence, and we are challenged by simple assaults.”

All year, 7News has been tracking and reporting on crime trends in Fairfax County.

In August, when 7News told Board of Supervisor’s Chair Jeff McKay that several categories of crime are going up, McKay responded by saying Fairfax County is the safest jurisdiction of its size in the country.

It’s a message that’s been echoed by Fairfax County’s top prosecutor Steve Descano.

“At the end of the day, we are experiencing what most jurisdictions are experiencing except we are weathering it much better,” Descano told 7News. “That allows us to keep our communities safe and crime is down over the last few years in general.”

Descano is counting all crimes, including Group B offenses which include drunkenness. But the number of Group A crimes is increasing.

Supervisor Pat Herrity is calling out local leaders like Chairman McKay for painting a rosy picture of crime trends in Fairfax County while the Fairfax County Police Department (FCPD) is short around 200 officers.

“Everything is not OK. It’s not anywhere near OK,” said Herrity. “You can’t be down 200 officers, disbanding all your specialty units, units that took our department from a good department to a great department and be OK. The police shortage impacts everybody day to day. Whether that be increase crime, increase speeding, and people ignoring traffic laws. It puts us at risk. We’ve seen that in everything from our mall managers not reporting crime, now to the increased traffic fatalities that we’ve had. It’s something that when you lose control of, it’s hard to get back. We need to get back to public safety being a priority in Fairfax County.”

As of Nov. 22, Fairfax County saw 20 homicides in 2022 which is the same number of homicides in 2021. In 2020, there were 15 homicides and in 2019 there were 14 homicides, according to FCPD data.

“Murders 2022 vs. 2021, we are at 20. You might recall we finished 2021 with 20 murders,” said Davis. “A third of those murders were committed by adult children killing their parents inside their homes. This year is a little bit different. But, domestic violence in terms of homicides is still the theme. Nine of our 20 murders are domestic-related murders. So, we are still seeing domestic violence stress and anxiety, isolation all those things play a role in the family dynamic and violence that has erupted because of that.”

 

Young people, stop and think about it after you read this....do you really wan to spend 20 years with idiots like this?

 8 sex assault cases unable to be investigated due to destroyed evidence: Fairfax County Police

FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. (FOX 5 DC) - Eight sex assault cases where evidence was marked as having been destroyed can no longer be investigated, Fairfax County Police say.

The department says they have reviewed 93 cases assigned to Detective Cynthia Lundberg from 1994 to 1997 that were identified following a Freedom of Information Act request filed by a victim of 1995 sexual assault.

The Washington Post was the first to reveal the destruction of evidence in Gretchen Van Winkle’s case.

Two separate investigators looked at the FOIA request with particular emphasis on the 46 sex assault cases where evidence was labeled as having been destroyed.

Detectives had no concerns with the destruction of evidence in 38 of these cases, as evidence was destroyed in accordance with FCPD policy. Examples of evidence destroyed per department protocol include cases closed by arrest and fully adjudicated, cases where the victim did not want to further the investigation and cases closed as a police service.

Detectives found eight sex assault cases listed within the FOIA where evidence was marked as having been destroyed and questions remain. Additional investigation into these cases would be warranted but is now impossible without the necessary evidence.

The victims in these cases are all living survivors of sexual assault, and FCPD says they deeply regret that they will not likely be able to obtain the justice they deserve due to the destruction of evidence.

FCPD says victims with questions about an existing case are encouraged to call. They will be provided with a case update and supportive services.

"The improper destruction of evidence makes it extremely difficult to hold offenders of crimes accountable," said Major Ed O’Carroll, Bureau Chief, Major Crimes Bureau, Cyber and Forensics. "The victims in these cases deserved better, and the Fairfax County Police Department deeply regrets the actions of the past. Steps are now in place to prevent such errors from ever repeating."

The department says its policies and practices are now explicit in the way evidence is preserved in all sexual assault investigations. These policies include:

- All physical evidence recovery kits (PERKs), regardless of whether they are submitted for testing or excluded from testing because of a legislatively mandated exception, are required to be stored for a minimum of 10 years, or 10 years past the victim’s 18th birthday, whichever is longer. 

- If at any time, the victim objects to the destruction of a PERK, or rape kit, the kit shall be kept for a minimum of 10 years from the date of the request.

- Officers/Detectives shall notify survivors of their PERK ID number and PIN for access to the PERK Tracking System, unless there is sufficient and articulable reason to believe that doing so would unnecessarily interfere with the investigation. 

- All officers/detectives shall provide victims with a PERK ID number and PIN, and are required to notify a victim at least 60 days prior to the destruction of a PERK of their intent to destroy the kit.

- Regardless of the results of any forensic testing, no FCPD employee may unilaterally request the destruction of any PERK kit or other crime scene evidence relating to a sexual assault that has been identified by MCB Command, in conjunction with the Director of Victim Services, to be deemed relevant to prosecution. 

- FCPD employees who seek the destruction of these items shall request a meeting with both the Commander of the Violent Crimes Division as well as the Director of the Victim Services Division for final review and joint concurrence.

- The status of property or evidence shall not be changed without the written consent of the officer/detective responsible for the item(s) along with secondary approval of their first-line supervisor. 

In July 2016, Virginia law was put into effect stating that a law enforcement agency that receives a PERK collected from a victim who has reported the offense shall submit the PERK to DFS for analysis within 60 days of receipt, except in certain circumstances.

In June 2019, Virginia also launched a website to track the location of PERKs to ensure survivors of sexual assault know what’s happening to their cases. Survivors of sexual assault are given an ID number to see where their kit is. No personal information that could identify the survivor is logged in the website.

  

Young people, want to work with drunks and people who dream about killing themselves (check the stats)

 Fairfax County police officer on administrative leave September 12, 2022 

A Fairfax County police officer is on administrative leave after he was arrested in Stafford County for driving under the influence. 

Police officer Stephen Copp, who has worked with the police department for 15 years, was arrested while he was off-duty. He was driving a county vehicle at the time of the arrest, according to the Fairfax County Police Department. 

An international affairs bureau investigation is underway. Copp was assigned to FCPD’s criminal investigation division. 

Fairfax County Police drove into a car head-on in a traffic stop. The driver wasn't their suspect

this is the quality of people the FCPD is hiring nowdays

October 6, 20222:08 PM ET

 A woman is calling for accountability after she says Virginia police officers hit her head-on while she was stopped at a traffic light, even though she wasn't the suspect they were looking for.

In a video posted to Instagram on Saturday, Jamee Kimble can be heard berating officers with the Fairfax County Police Department after a police vehicle hit the silver sedan she, her two children and another adult had been traveling in.

"I'm sitting at the light, and he comes and hits me from the front!" Kimble yells in the video. "They stopped the wrong person."

Kimble, who said she was on her way to Walmart to buy food for her kids, said in her social media post that the incident occurred just six days after she delivered her youngest child via C-section.

Officers drew their guns on her and handcuffed her, Kimble said, before releasing her and offering medical treatment.

Kimble can be heard in the video telling police that she couldn't be the suspect they were looking for because she had been in the hospital giving birth at the time of the earlier incident.

The department said it has opened an administrative review of the stop.

Speaking in an interview with News4 Washington, Kimble said she was shocked by the incident and wanted the police to apologize.

"I still am very angry and, more than anything, hurt because I teach my children that the police are supposed to protect us, and that if they need anything they can call them for help," she said.

Youg people, think about this (below) The FCPD sucks so much they have to offer incentive pay to join

 

Fairfax County New Police Hires Could Get A $15K Hiring Bonus

You can do better with your lives than the FCPD

Young people, think about this (below) Its such an idiot job they have to pay people from leaving

 

McLean body wants Fairfax to offer retention bonuses for county police

by BRIAN TROMPETER, Sun Gazette Newspapers

ITS NOT THE JOB, ITS THE FAIRFAX COUNTY POLICE....YOU CAN DO BETTER WITH YOUR LIFE.

Young people, wanna be a Fairfax County cop? Well this is the type of moron you'll work with. This clown usn't the acception to the rule, this is the low quality of people who take jobs with the FCPD

 

Here's an example of a cop with (1) to much time on his hand (2) overstepping his authority (3) no knowledge of the law

 

Cuban Pete

 

No, we should police the police

Here's a perfect example of why a temendous number of Americans feel we are overfundimg the police...this clown really could find nothing to do on the government dime?

 

Young people, listen to me, if they can’t fill vacancies it means the job sucks.

 

Stop and think about it. And its not the job itself, it’s the loons on the job because at this point the only people who want the job are those desperate for authority, basically the same people everyone avoided in high school.

 

 

Personnel emergency declared as FCPD tackles staffing challenges

The Fairfax County Police Department is under a personnel emergency amid a staffing shortage that has continued for several months. 

In a temporary shift, police officers are transitioning to two 12.5-hour shifts and working mandatory overtime, according to the FCPD. That departs from the standard staffing model of three 11.5-hour shifts.

Additionally, patrol officers “may be required” to help other squads to maintain safe staffing levels, FCPD told FFXnow.

So far, the police department has 194 operational vacancies, but that does not account for 50 recruits currently in the police academy. That leaves 144 total vacancies.

“We have launched a multi-media recruiting campaign this summer with updates videos on our new JoinFCPD.org website,” a spokesperson said.

Some say the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors has failed to provide adequate salary increases and other incentives to attract and retain the county’s police force.

While officers saw an average pay increase of nearly 8% in this fiscal year, beginning July 1, pay scale steps were frozen between fiscal years 2019 and 2021.

“The salary increases that some officers received this fiscal year doesn’t make up for what was previously promised to them,” Steve Manohan, president of the county’s chapter of the Southern States Police Benevolent Association said. “Keep in mind, there were hundreds of officers who only received a 4% cost of living increase in fiscal year 2022.”

Board Chairman Jeff McKay says the board is working with FCPD to recruit and retain officers, noting that Chief Kevin Davis has a plan to reach out across the county, region and nationwide — including non-traditional means like advertisements at movie theaters. The department has also reduced the length of its application and background information requirements in an effort to streamline the process.

“All of this is done to position FCPD as an exciting and meaningful career choice for those who may have a calling for public service,” McKay wrote in a statement.

McKay says the county is looking at different ways to support officers as staffing adjustments continue.

“The Fairfax County Police Department is a top destination for anyone who wants to serve their community, and we will continue to get that message out while also exploring ways to maintain our regional competitiveness in compensation and job satisfaction,” he said. “Like with all municipalities during this pandemic era there is much work to be done, but our team–and especially our officers–are up to the task, and we are here to support them 100%.”

Still, Manohan says more must be done to address the “exodus” of police officers from the county.

“Our board maintains that a three-step decompression of the pay scale, or 15% pay raise is a reasonable and good faithed effort to stop the exodus of officers from leaving the department and makes an honest investment of the public safety of Fairfax County,” Manohan said.

Part of that hiring commitment includes increasing the number of women in the police. By 2030, the police department hopes that at least 30% of its workforce will consist of female police officers. 

“An internal look at retention are all aspects of a multifaceted approach to returning to our complete staffing model,” the spokesperson said.

High vacancy rates have plagued the public safety sector across the country. In Fairfax County, the sheriff’s office has been affected as well.

Manohan says the time to act is now. 

“With nearly 200 operational vacancies within the department, violent crime increasing, and officers being forced to work longer hours; the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors has failed to address the serious issues concerning the rank and file of our department,” he wrote in a statement to FFXnow.

The FCPD reported an overall drop in crime last year compared to 2020, though there was an uptick in homicides.

It’s unclear when staffing will resume to normal operations, according to the FCPD. The department did not provide specific information on how staffing shortages may impact service, shifts, hours, and the composition of police units.

 

 

Family criticizes Fairfax Co. police for fatally shooting man suffering from mental health crisis

 

Fairfax County police fatally shot 26-year-old Jasper Aaron Lynch inside a McLean, Virginia residence. 

 

"We have a family member here who was having a bit of a psychotic break," the caller says. "He's here now. He's throwing some stuff right now, so if we can get a dispatch that would be really helpful."

So the cops went over to the address and shot the kid to death.

In one hand, Lynch can be seen holding a wine bottle, and in the other hand is a tribal mask.

Officers can be heard repeatedly telling Lynch to put the objects down. "It's alright, bud," one says. 

Lynch disregards the demands and throws the mask at the officers and then runs after them swinging a bottle.

So they killed him.

"Our son, Aaron, was experiencing a severe mental health crisis on July 7. He was scared and asked for both of the 911 calls that were made that day. We believe that the three police officers who answered the second 911 call could have, and should have, handled this far differently," the statement reads. "To respond to Aaron’s mental health crisis by shooting him at all, let alone multiple times, cannot be justified. We recognize that, at times, police officers face grave and unknown dangers in the line of duty, but that was not the case for that call at our home regarding our son. Aaron was about 5’ 6", slightly built, and holding just a bottle and a decorative mask.

"As parents, we mourn the heartbreaking loss of our son and are left with only memories and regret. Had we known there was any possibility that the police responding to the second 911 call would use lethal force against Aaron during a mental health crisis, we would not have involved them until a mental health counselor could be present, as was the case for the response to the first 911 call. We hope our efforts to find out more about this incident will, in the future, help families in similar situations avoid such a tragic outcome."

The officer who shot Lynch has been identified as First Class Edward George. He has been placed on administrative status.

Young people. do you want to work around people like this guy? Then stay the hell away from the Fairfax County Police, takea job with the federal government, join the army, anything else but these killers.

 on the other hand, if your suspected of killing your infant daughter, you'll just get house confinement, ...

 

FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. (7News) — Jason Michael Colley, a 42-year-old former Fairfax County police officer charged in the death of his 6-month-old daughter in 2017, entered an Alford plea to two counts of first-degree assault Thursday in Frederick County Circuit Court.

An Alford plea is a type of guilty plea in which a defendant maintains their innocence but admits that the prosecution's evidence would likely result in a guilty verdict if brought to trial.

According to police, 6-month-old Harper Colley died on October 31, 2017 after sustaining the injuries that led to her death on September 19.

The State argued that the court sentence Colley to a term in the Division of Corrections within the sentencing guidelines of eight to eighteen years based on the two counts, followed by five years of supervised probation. The defense argued for a term of home detention.

Judge Julia A. Martz-Fisher sentenced Colley to a combined fifty years suspending all but eight years to be served on private home detention. The defendant was also ordered to serve five years of supervised probation with additional terms that he not engage in physical punishment of children.

The plea agreement comes following four days of jury selection for what was slated to be a lengthy trial.

On September 19, 2017, Troopers with the Maryland State Police responded to the 12000 block of Fingerboard Road in Monrovia for the report of a sick or injured subject. The call came in as 6-month-old female infant that was having seizures and not breathing. The 911 caller was the defendant, Jason Colley. The infant was transported to Shady Grove Hospital in Montgomery County. The infant was later flown to Children’s Hospital in the District of Columbia where she later passed away. Over the course of a lengthy investigation, detectives determined that the infant’s traumatic brain injury could not have been caused by an accident or illness, but by an intentional act.

“We're hemorrhaging.”

 

Listen, young people. There’s a reason the Fairfax County Police are short by 160-200 “officers” because no one with an IQ over 80 will work there.

Why not?

Because the Fairfax County Police are corrupt (call and ask why the last chief “resigned” so quickly)

Because their short staffed, they’ve lowered their standards and the people joining the force are the same people you and everyone else avoided in high school.

Because no one want to work with them, if you work with them, you’ll be worked into the ground (15 to 16 hours a day) for less money than trash collectors make (its true, look it up)   

Think about it…..is this what you want to do with the prime years of your life?

Fairfax County Police Association whines about laws that keep them in check.

 

Virginia’s attorney general met with members of a Fairfax County cops group night to listen to their claims that new laws and policies are making it tougher for them to do their job.

They claim they’re having a tougher time bringing charges in some cases because magistrates are interpreting cases more liberally. …..as is the right of the magistrate since the arresting cop evidently interpreted the laws from a narrow, far right view.

They’ve also expressed concerns about inexperience on the part of some assistant commonwealth’s attorneys and say some cases are being dropped.

Well….no, their cases aren’t being dropped because some assistant commonwealth’s attorneys are inexperienced….the law doesn’t work that way. The law is or the isn’t. Experience has nothing to do with it.

Think about it

 

ouy

 

Nice work

 

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WHAT WE DO

Welcome to the Fairfax County Police Department. The Department’s vision is to do whatever there hell we want or at least as much as we can away with.  We provide  minimal ethical leadership  and work to improve our closed cop culture. We strive to preserve the sanctity of all human life, as long as people are watching and to keep pace through intimidation. To visit the Chief's Page, click the "Learn More" link below.

This guy would make a perfect fit for the Fairfax County Police force, he explains everything that's wrong with policing.

 

Dumb enough to be a Fairfax County Cop

 

I researched this to find out if it actually happened....it did....the cop got a slap on the wrist

 

Is the Fairfax County police department in a crisis? And the cops are the victims? WTF?

Viral arrest video shows Fairfax Co. police officers pointing guns at a ...

Fairfax Cops Busted For Aiming Guns At ‘Juvenile’ Filming Arrest In Virginia Viral Video: ‘You Have A Weapon’

 

Fairfax Cops Busted For Aiming Guns At ‘Juvenile’ Filming Arrest In Virginia Viral Video: ‘You Have A Weapon’

This instance proves why it's absolutely necessary to allow citizens to record the cops.

Written By Zack Linly

In Fairfax County, Virginia, two police officers are being investigated after getting busted for aggressively approaching and pointing their guns at a “juvenile” who was filming them in a video that has since gone viral.

“Why are you pulling the gun on me?”  the cameraman—who police identified as a minor—asked a female officer.

“Because you have a weapon,” the officer responded definitively despite the fact that the juvenile was not holding a weapon.

The teen behind the camera shouted, “No weapon, no weapon,” but the officer kept her gun on him despite the fact that, at this point, she had plenty of time to recognize that the phone he was holding was not, in fact, a weapon. Meanwhile, another cop ran up on the cameraman with his own gun drawn while shouting at the teen to get on the ground.

Here’s the excuse Fairfax County Police gave in a statement, according to Fox 5:

“Around 7 p.m. on Saturday, July 9, a group of 3-4 juveniles entered the IHOP, 6655 Arlington Blvd in the Falls Church area of Fairfax County. One of the juveniles threatened the hostess while another lifted his shirt, revealing what appeared to be a handgun in his waistband. The group departed but returned later attempting to get the employee to come outside to the parking lot.  When officers arrived, the juveniles ran to a nearby parking lot, where officers detained two subjects and did not find a weapon. While detaining them, a third subject, who the officers believed to be involved, approached with something in his hands. Due to the nature of the call and not locating a weapon, officers ordered the subject to the ground at gunpoint. Officers determined the juvenile was holding a cell phone and filming. The three juveniles were detained and later released to their parents. The investigation has been assigned to a detective in our Criminal Investigation Division. As with all pointing of a firearm events, the incident is under review.”

 

Fairfax County Cops kill a man with mental health problems: Here’s what’s going to happen. The FCPD will investigate. The FCPD will determine they did nothing wrong. The FCPD will get away with it.

 

 

 

Fairfax County police identify man shot & killed by officers in McLean home Thursday

Friday, July 8th 2022

 

The victim this time was 26-year-old Jasper Aaron Lynch.

The incident began just after 7 p.m. Thursday, with a 911 call about "a man in crisis." Officers and a co-responding clinician arrived at the home on Arbor Lane, but say they were unable to locate the person they'd been called about.

"Arbor lane.. caller is back on the phone saying subject is now throwing things," a dispatcher can be heard saying.

Police say officers returned to the home in response to that second 911 call, this time without a clinician.

The cops explained returning without the clinician "We're going to determine exactly where she was, but nature of the second call was far different than the first call"

In other words “We need time to come up with a story to cover our ass”

When officers arrived at the home that second time, they say a "struggle" ensued, and allege that Lynch charged at officers with "something in his hand". Lynch was holding a bottle and an object believed to be a large, decorative tribal mask. They allege Lynch threw the mask at an officer and began to swing the bottle in striking motion.

Police said they attempted to verbally de-escalate the situation before two of the responding officers deployed their tasers and a third officer fired his service weapon multiple times.

"We have one subject multiple shots in the chest. We need an ambulance now," an officer can be heard saying on dispatch audio.

Every morning at the FCPD roll call

 

Settlement reached in suit alleging excessive force by Va. officer - The Washington Post

 

A $150,000 settlement has been reached in a federal lawsuit alleging a Fairfax County police officer Tasered and punched a Black man without a weapon on him……the FCPD investigated and found nothing wrong with his actions…..

 

Let me interpret this for you: We’re having a hard time finding people who want to work as cops or who want to continue to work as cops so we’re broadening the scope of what police abuse is.

 

Police review panel adds process to weed out unfounded complaints

TysonsReporter.com June 1, 2022 at 11:54am

 

Fairfax County’s Police Civilian Review Panel has implemented a screening process to better assess whether complaints have merit.

The panel, which reviews complaints of misconduct by the Fairfax County Police Department, uses the process to determine if a request should be reviewed by the entire panel, thereby expediting its other cases.

“I don’t mean to disparage anyone who brings complaints, but sometimes they are simply unfounded, and it is not necessary for the entire panel to devote our resources to viewing a complaint,” panel member Jimmy Bierman said during the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors’ May 17 public safety committee meeting.

Unarmed man stunned by Fairfax Co. police officer settles civil rights lawsuit

 

Neal Augenstein | naugenstein@wtop.com

 

An unarmed Black man who was shocked with a stun gun wielded by a white Fairfax County police officer in June 2020 has reached a settlement in a federal civil rights lawsuit, WTOP has learned.

Two months ago, a jury found Officer Tyler Timberlake not guilty of three counts of assault and battery after using his Taser stun gun on Lamonta Gladney while responding to a call in the Mount Vernon area.

In March 2021, Gladney filed a civil rights lawsuit against the officer, claiming Timberlake’s actions violated Gladney’s constitutional rights against unreasonable search and seizure, and equal protection under the law.

Court records obtained by WTOP show Timberlake’s attorney, Heather Bardot, has notified the judge that the case has been settled and the settlement has been approved by the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors.

WTOP has asked for the details of the settlement but Timberlake’s and Gladney’s attorneys, and a Fairfax County spokesman declined to provide specifics.

Contacted by WTOP, Gladney’s co-counsel, Bruce Godfrey, said he “was favorably impressed with the professionalism of opposing counsel” for Timberlake and Fairfax County. He declined to describe the financial terms of the settlement.

“We believe now, and believed while filing, that our case was well-founded,” Godfrey said, referring to his co-counsel Thomas Hennessy. “We think the case is worthy of study, on the doctrine of qualified immunity, which is one of significant public policy interest.”

Qualified immunity, based on U.S. Supreme Court rulings, protects officers from lawsuits unless it can be shown their actions violated “clearly established” rights a reasonable person should know about.

In earlier filings, Bardot told the judge the parties had reached agreement on April 27 “to resolve this case fully and finally,” subject to the approval of the Board of Supervisors, who met in closed session on May 10, with outside counsel, Jim Guynn.

Bardot wrote Guynn had extended the settlement offer, after meeting privately with the Board “to discuss the case and obtain direction and settlement authority.”

On May 10, Bardot updated the court that the case had been settled and asked that Timberlake’s civil trial, which was scheduled to begin May 16, be removed from the court’s docket.

Board of Supervisors Chairman Jeff McKay said there will be no liability admitted by either party in connection with the case. He declined to specify how much the county paid in the settlement.

“Moving forward, I have full faith in Chief [Kevin] Davis and the Fairfax County Police Department to continue making progress on important issues such as use of force, de-escalation, communication, community outreach and building trust,” McKay told WTOP, in a statement. “Fairfax County is the safest jurisdiction of its size in the U.S. and that is due to our police department and our community working together to achieve this.”