Fairfax County police chief outlines his top priorities


  
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.