Judging from Fairfax County
Board of Supervisors Chairman Sharon Bulova’s Feb. 6 letter [“The Fairfax
County Board of Supervisors is committed to justice ”] and Supervisor Michael
R. Frey’s (R-Sully) comments in the Feb. 3 Metro article “Handling of police
shooting criticized,” the job description of a supervisor apparently does not
include the task of supervising county employees, including the police.
To read that the board needs to
hire a consultant, contact the state attorney general and initiate studies to see
what policies are needed to get county management to do their jobs — that is,
supervise — is a clear sign of an organization that does not have a culture of
accountability. The first step for Ms. Bulova and the board is to hold
accountable all managers who have been complicit in this sad situation and make
the hard changes that are clearly necessary.
Fred Walker, Centreville
