Fairfax Co. residents question police pursuit policy after neighborhood crash
FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. — Austin Thomas was sleeping peacefully at his home on Saturday night, when suddenly he heard a loud noise.
“We were asleep. There was a loud explosion sounding outside,” Thomas said.
He later found out that the sound was a result of a 20-year-old driver, who crashed into three vehicles and a RV at around 1:00 a.m.
Surveillance video shows several officers following that suspect into the neighborhood moments after the crash.
Fairfax County Police admits there was a short chase in the neighborhood on Martha Washington Street, after the driver of a BMW made an illegal turn.
According to the police department’s policy, “pursuit supervisors must always balance the need for immediate apprehension with the danger created by the pursuit.”
In this case, Thomas believes the chase put lives at risk.
“It’s not safe to have a hundred mile per hour chase throughout the neighborhood,” Thomas said.
At one point the suspect narrowly missed a young woman, who was riding her bike.
Thomas talked to officers after the crash.
“When you factor in, what’s more valuable, the pursuit of someone who is suspected of DUI or the lives that could’ve been damaged or the property that was damaged or if it wasn’t those vehicle, it would’ve gone through a house, the way this neighborhood is setup,” he said. “So if it didn’t hit those four vehicles, the first tree and the two trees on the top of the trailer, who knows where he would end up.”
Fairfax County police are still investigating the incident.
Charges are pending for the driver of the BMW.
“He could’ve stopped, I don’t know what was running through his head,” Thomas said.
As previously scheduled, before the crash, Fairfax will take another look at their pursuit policy in December 2022.
Fairfax police dressed as Santa surprise children in the hospital for the holidays
Here's a better idea...do your jobs.
Don't murder any citizens and lie about it....let me be more clear....One: don't murder any citizens. Two: Don't lie about murdering them.
Fairfax County Citizens Police Academy Accepting Applications
Is your life really that empty that you would actually get involved with this?
Sully District Police MPO Kitzerow Receives Two Awards...ouy vay with the awards already
THE FAIRFAX COUNTY POLICE GIVE EACH OTHER AWARD ON A BI-WEEKLY BASIS
Fairfax prosecutor will not seek charges in Bijan Ghaisar case before he leaves office
JUST LEAVE....YOU HAVE DONE ENOUGH DAMAGE. JUST GO AND BE INCOMPETENT SOMEPLACE ELSE.
Its amazing more of these donut hunters don't accidently shoot themselves
Chief: Breach may have compromised police
officers’ data
December 1, 2019
By – Associated Press – Saturday, November 16,
2019
FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) – 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 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.
Okay, once again, we REALLY need to start having IQ standards for the cops
Canadian woman arrested for not holding escalator handrail awarded $20G in damages
Steve Descano is backed by Soros Cash. So what?
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.
The FCP are idiots and they are out of control
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.
The end of God forsaken Raymond F. Morrogh
Raymond F. Morrogh is gone. Thank
you, Jesus. Perhaps justice will now prevail, for once, in Fairfax County, since
the corrupt cops no long run the prosecutor’s office with Morrogh
gone, to hell, I hope.
In the past election Steve T.
Descano beat the hell out of Morrogh want-to-be Jonathan Fahey. Fahey promised
to continue Morrogh kiss-the-cops ass policies. Descano, a former federal
prosecutor and Army helicopter pilot, ran on a 22-page blueprint that promised
to retool almost every aspect of how the prosecutor’s office is run.
Descano has pledged not to
overcharge crimes, end use of cash bail and the death penalty, root out
systematic racial discrimination through the collection of data, and drop
prosecutions for marijuana possession. (Washington Post)
Descano is a drone for George
Soros who essentially bought the election for Descano. Although I’d like to see
Soros deported from the country, but for this brief and shining moment I’d like to
just bask in the cop’s defeat and enjoy the fact that Andrew Wright, the
president of the Police Benevolent Association Fairfax County said the union
was disappointed Fahey lost.
“The stated goals of Mr. Descano
to decrease or eliminate the prosecution of minor theft and drug cases will
change our county for years to come,” Wright said in the statement.
Yeah, it will. It will make it
better and decrease the power of police department out of control.
And the cops can't figure out why people hate them so much......
Colorado homeowner owed nothing after police SWAT shootout destroys his house, federal court rules
A federal appeals court in Colorado ruled Tuesday that a local police department does not have to compensate a homeowner whose house was destroyed by 19 hours of gunfire between officers and an armed shoplifting suspect who had chosen to barricade himself inside to evade arrest.
Lech’s home, valued at $580,000, was marked for demolition in 2015 after a SWAT team used armored vehicles to breach the structure, deployed tear gas and explosives and shot 40 mm rounds in an effort to drive the suspect out.
Homeowner Leo Lech didn’t know the subject. The home was rented to Lech’s son and his wife who were not home when the shooter broke in and started his gun battle with the police.
The city had initially paid Lech $5,000 in temporary living assistance. John Lech moved in with his parents and his girlfriend's son had to change schools. His home insurance company paid him $345,000 for the damage but that amount did not come close to covering additional costs related to personal property damage, demolishing and rebuilding the home and taking out a new mortgage on the new house.
“It’s a miracle insurance covered any of it in the first place,” attorney Rachel Maxam told the Post. “Insurance is for fires, floods. There’s no ‘police blew up my house’ insurance.”
The home next door suffered about $70,000 in damage was not compensated by its insurance company.
Lech said he plans to appeal to case to the Supreme Court.
....and that's the last we'll ever hear of that.
Police Cruiser Strikes, Kills
Pedestrian In West Falls Church
The officer had a green light
when the cruiser struck the pedestrian, according to Fairfax County Police.
By Emily Leayman, Patch Staff
FALLS CHURCH, VA — A Fairfax
County police cruiser struck and killed a pedestrian on a major Falls Church
area roadway early Sunday, Oct. 20. It was the county's 14th fatal pedestrian
crash in 2019.
Police release sketch of suspect in Fairfax County attempted kidnapping
Police
have released a sketch of the suspect in an attempted kidnapping earlier this
month in Fairfax County, Virginia.
The
attempted kidnapping took place on Oct. 13 around 3 p.m. in the area of
Wheatwheel Lane and Gallows Road in Annandale.
Police
said the juvenile victim as playing with a friend near the roadway of the 3300
block of Wheatwheel Lane when a man picked up the victim from behind.
The
child fought off the suspect, who ran from the areaAnyone with information
should call the Fairfax County Criminal Investigation Bureau at 703-246-7800.
Fairfax County Police probably overreacted again, killed the guy, and called it a suicide and they’ll get away with it too. Watch and see.
New details emerge about man
suspected of killing his mother and nephew in Burke
by Tim Barber/ABC7
BURKE, Va. (WJLA) — A neighbor’s
cell phone recorded the gunshots that were fired on the scene of a stand-off in
Burke Monday night.
When Fairfax County Police got
inside the home along the 6100 block of Wicklow Drive, they found Marcellus
William Bounds IV had shot and killed his 67-year old mother Patricia Bounds
and his 19-year old nephew Sean Bailes. Bailes briefly attended Robinson
Secondary School and Northern Virginia Community College.
Police found the shooter dead inside
the home with what appears to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Bounds’ other nephew escaped the
Burke home before the shooting. Other family members did not want to talk, so
we could not find out who is taking care of the surviving nephew.
A medical examiner will determine if
Bounds shot and killed himself or if he was shot and killed by police.
ABC7 could not find a criminal
history in Fairfax County, but 10 years ago in St. Johns County, Florida,
Bounds was arrested for battery on a law enforcement officer (a 3rd degree
felony) and using a firearm while under the influence of alcohol (a 2nd degree
misdemeanor).
And this sort of stupidity will continue until we have a national IQ test for cops, until then, the guy behind the patrol car wheel is probably a mouth breather
Fairfax
County police officer responding to call strikes, kills pedestrian early Sunday
By Luz
Lazo
A
Fairfax County police officer responding to a call struck and killed a
pedestrian in the Falls Church area early Sunday, police said.
The
officer was driving in the eastbound lanes of Arlington Boulevard (Route 50),
approaching Graham Road when he struck Carlos Romeo Montoya, 40, at a crosswalk
about 12:15 a.m., according to police. Police did not have a current address
for Montoya.
There
is no indication that the officer had activated the lights or siren of his
marked cruiser, but he did have a green light, according to Police Chief Edwin
C. Roessler Jr.
“The
best information we have right now is the officer did have a green light, was
proceeding through the intersection, and that the pedestrian unfortunately was
crossing against the ‘don’t walk’ sign,” Roessler said at a Sunday afternoon
news conference.
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The
area is a busy commercial corridor that has multiple travel lanes and has come
to be known as a dangerous stretch for pedestrians.
The
incident closed three lanes of the highway for several hours.
Roessler
said the officer, identified only as someone with more than four years of law
enforcement experience, was responding to a call for service for disorderly
subjects.
Police
on Sunday were still trying to determine the actual speed of the cruiser at the
time of the crash, Roessler said. The posted speed in the area is 45 mph.
Roessler
said the cruiser’s in-car video system shows the officer was driving through a
green light, eastbound on Arlington Boulevard approaching the intersection of
Graham Road, when he struck the man in the left lane. The officer got out of
the cruiser to aid the victim until emergency personnel arrived, Roessler said.
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Police
said Montoya was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Pedestrians
continue to be at high risk on Washington region’s roads, data show
The
crash revived concerns about pedestrian safety in the county — where 14
pedestrians have been killed in traffic crashes so far this year — and about
that section of Arlington Boulevard in particular, which has a history of
tragedies involving pedestrians.
A
36-year-old woman was struck and killed in the area just over a year ago.
The incident
also is the latest of several fatal crashes this month involving pedestrians in
the Washington region. An unidentified man was killed in a hit-and-run crash in
Laurel on Oct. 12. A day later, a 67-year-old Takoma Park man was killed when
he was struck by two vehicles at an intersection in the Silver Spring area of
Montgomery County. And, last Monday, a 54-year-old Suitland woman was killed in
a hit-and-run in Prince George’s County.
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The
number of pedestrians fatalities in the region has been on the rise in recent
years. Pedestrians accounted for one-third of the 290 traffic deaths in the
greater Washington area last year — their largest proportion of the region’s
road fatalities in more than a decade, according to data compiled by The
Washington Post.
Fairfax
County traffic-safety advocates said Sunday’s crash highlights the safety
concerns along a portion of highway that is known to have poor lighting and
where cars are traveling at high speeds and pedestrians are forced to cross
eight lanes of traffic.
“Unacceptable!”
tweeted Shawn Newman of the Fairfax Alliance for Better Bicycling.
“This
section of Arlington Boulevard is designed for 50+ mph speeds with 8 crossing
lanes and minimal light through a dense residential and commercial area,”
Newman tweeted using the group’s handle.
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In a
separate message directed at the Virginia Department of Transportation, the
group tweeted: “Stop just telling people to slow down, build the roads safer.”
The
Virginia Department of Transportation is conducting a study of a segment of
Route 50 between Wilson Boulevard and Jaguar Trail, including the intersection
where Sunday’s crash occurred; a public meeting is scheduled for Monday. As
part of the study, the department is considering changes to traffic signal timing,
turn restrictions and other pedestrian improvements.
Roessler
said the investigation into Sunday’s crash will determine the lighting
conditions at the intersection as well as condition of the pedestrian walk
signs and the speed of the cruiser; it will also include a forensic medical
examination.
The
officer involved in the crash has been assigned to administrative duties
pending the investigation, Roessler said, and the results will be sent to the
Fairfax County commonwealth’s attorney’s office for review.
“All of
us in the D.C. area are trying to combat the pedestrian crashes and the
fatalities, which is very unfortunate in our urbanizing area,” Roessler said.
“This is just horrible. . . . We have an individual that has died. It is
traumatic. I pray for the victim, their family, this officer.”
Opinion: Commentary: Capstone to Four Years of Police Reform
By Phil Niedzielski-Eichner and
Adrian L. Steel Jr.
Wednesday, October 9, 2019
Just in time for the Oct. 8
fourth anniversary of the 2015 release of the Fairfax County Ad Hoc Police
Practices Review Commission Final Report, the Board of Supervisors approved
full implementation of body worn cameras (BWC) by the Fairfax County Police
Department (FCPD). This is one of the Commission’s most significant and
consequential recommendations. While a potential aid to criminal prosecution,
the body worn camera’s equally important contribution is to foster greater
transparency and accountability of all parties during the interactions of the
police with the public. Full implementation will begin in May 2020 and take
three years to phase in countywide.
The Board’s decision followed the
completion of a 2018 pilot study chartered by Police Chief Edwin C. Roessler
Jr. and conducted by the American University, which found that there was “…
overwhelming support among community members for the widespread adoption of
body worn cameras….” and “…consensus among the officers involved in the pilot
that body worn cameras will increase the gathering of evidence and help settle
complaints against officers.”
The Board’s decision is a fitting
capstone to a four-year successful effort by the Board to oversee the
transformation of the Police Department from one that was excellent to now
being on a clear path to becoming “best in class.”
The Commission’s formation by the
Board of Supervisors followed a few high-profile police use of force incidents,
with the ultimate catalyst being the August 2013 shooting death of unarmed
Springfield resident John Geer in his doorway.
Board Chair Bulova formed the Ad
Hoc Commission and her office closely oversaw the Commission’s work over an
intensive five-month period in 2015. Charged with “…assessing the (Fairfax County)
Police Department’s performance against national best practices,” the
Commission made more than 200 recommendations for strengthening the public’s
trust and confidence in the Department.
Public Safety Committee Chair
Supervisor John Cook combined forces with Board Chair Bulova and Chief Roessler
to drive the Board and Police Department to embrace the Ad Hoc Commission’s
recommendations. As they complete their many years of service to our community,
Bulova’s and Cook’s police-reform efforts will certainly be a key legacy.
The significant reforms for which
all can be proud will increase police accountability, divert those who suffer from
mental illness into treatment rather than incarceration, reduce use-of-force
injuries and deaths, open public access to incident information, and engender
public confidence.
Body worn cameras will now
complement the dashboard cameras mounted in each FCPD patrol vehicle. The
Department’s policy enshrines sanctity of human life as an organizing
principle, with de-escalation as the strategy of first resort when confronted
with a threat rather than the use of force. Constraints and strengthened
supervisory oversight are now in place on police use of vehicle pursuit.
“Diversion First” offers alternatives to incarceration for people with mental
illness or developmental disabilities.
An Independent Police Auditor
(IPA) automatically reviews investigations of death or serious injury cases as
well as uses of force when a citizen complaint is filed. A Civilian Review
Panel reviews investigations of civilian complaints regarding “abuse of
authority” or “serious misconduct” by an FCPD officer and holds public forums
to hear from the community. Policies regarding release of information provide
for increased public visibility into the Department’s daily activities and
performance, with a predisposition to disclose information, regardless of
incident controversy. Intense efforts are underway to recruit talented
personnel that better reflect Fairfax County’s population diversity.
Sustained effort and energy are
still required to move decades-old engrained practices into a “new normal.”
Further, those who are “best-in-class” constantly seek to improve.
Tough questions still need to be
asked as the County implements body worn cameras. Should an agency other than
the Department, for example, control access to the massive amount of data to be
collected? Should the IPA or an independent third party audit the program?
Heightened expectations alone should give our policymakers pause, particularly
when we know that no technology deployment is mistake and error free. Not
collecting video data during a controversial use of force incident is bad,
missing video data under the Department’s control is worse.
As to the revised vehicular
pursuit and stopping policies, it will be important for the FCPD to provide a
detailed report to the Board and the public in early 2020 as to the effects of
the revised policies, details of 2019 pursuits and vehicle stops, and whether
any further changes are needed. It will also be important for the Board to
monitor and take any appropriate action with respect to the racial disparity
study underway by the Independent Police Auditor.
On this fourth anniversary of the
Ad Hoc Commission Report, Fairfax County and its Police Department have
achieved many reforms of which to be proud. The temptation will be to declare
the mission accomplished. This would be a mistake. The new Board of Supervisors
come January must provide vigilant monitoring through performance expectations
and progress reports. Not because enough has not been accomplished, though more
improvements are needed, but because that’s the norm for best-in-class police
departments.
Niedzielski-Eichner and Steel
were chair and vice-chair of the Ad Hoc Commission’s Use of Force Subcommittee
and spent many hours with a small, loosely configured group of former
Commission members dedicated to implementing Commission recommendations,
working with FCPD leadership. Steel oversaw as chair the formation of the
Civilian Review Panel.
It isn't racism, its stupidity. We hire dumb people to police our communities and as long as it continues this sort of thing will continue.
Texas police officer fatally
shoots woman in her home after welfare check
Oct. 12
A black Texas woman was shot and killed
by a white Fort Worth police officer who was called to the woman's home for a
welfare check, authorities said.
In a statement, the department
said it received a call at 2:25 a.m. reporting an open front door at a
residence. Responding officers searched the perimeter of the house and saw a
person standing inside near the window, according to police.
"Perceiving a threat, the
officer drew his duty weapon and fired one shot, striking the person inside the
residence," the department stated. In body camera video released by
police, two officers search the home from the outside with flashlights before
one shouts, "Put your hands up, show me your hands." One shot is then
fired through a window.
Officers entered the house and
located an individual and a firearm, and began performing emergency medical
care.
Fox 4 Dallas-Fort Worth
identified the woman as 28-year-old Atatiana Jefferson. She succumbed to her
injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. There were no other
injuries.
The officer has been placed on
administrative leave pending the outcome of an investigation, according to
police. He has been with the Fort Worth Police Department since April 2018.
The department released bodycam
footage of the incident "to provide transparent and relevant information
to the public as we are allowed within the confines of the" investigation,
it stated. Any video taken inside the house could not be distributed due to
state law.
The neighbor who called 911 about
the open front door told Fox 4 the police officers didn't announce who they
were or knock on the door before searching the outside of the house.
"When I made that
non-emergency call, I didn’t say it was a burglary. I didn’t say it was people
fighting. I didn’t say anything to make them have a gun. All they needed to do
is ring the doorbell,” James Smith said.
“They didn’t park up front, they
parked on the side. They sent SRT, which is the special response team. They
didn’t have a plainclothes officer to knock on that door,” activist and pastor
Kyev Tatum told Fox 4.
The incident comes less than two
weeks after a white former Dallas police officer was sentenced to 10 years in
prison for killing her black neighbor inside his own apartment. Amber Guyger
said during her trial that mistook Botham Jean's apartment for her own, which
was one floor below Jean's.
Guyger, 31, was convicted of
murder for Jean's September 2018 death.
This is a good article but this isn't about neoliberal, this is about a police department that plays politics to keep its budget.
What Everybody Is Missing About The Police
Chief Who Favors Illegal Aliens Over Americans
Marina Medvin
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A leftist police Chief for one of DC’s
wealthiest suburbs, Fairfax County, Virginia, announced in a press release that
an illegal immigrant was initially investigated by one of his officers for
causing a traffic collision, and after the officer was notified that the
individual was wanted by ICE, the Fairfax officer surrendered him to ICE
custody instead of setting him free. The Chief declared that this officer
violated his internal police directive that orders Fairfax County officers to
set illegal immigrants free, even if the officers are put on notice that these
individuals are wanted by ICE and even if they can lawfully detain the
individuals under Virginia law. The neoliberal Chief ordered an internal
investigation and accused his officer of misconduct, stating that this officer
“deprived a person of their freedom, which is unacceptable.”
Conservatives became outraged at a Chief
punishing his officer for following Virginia law. “Based on the information
currently known, this officer did NOT violate any law. He simply violated the
liberal Chief’s sanctuary city policy and was punished for not following the
Chief’s political agenda. This Chief destroyed a young officer’s career in
order to pursue his selfish liberal ideations,” I advised Townhall for their
report on this issue. Always on the wrong end of immigration issues, Liberals
were unsurprisingly elated to applaud a Sanctuary City Utopia that does not
enforce the law with respect to illegals.
What most media commentary has missed is
the striking problem that the neoliberal Chief presented for Americans: he
suspended an officer for briefly depriving an illegal of his freedom by
detaining him until ICE arrived, but yet has never announced suspending or
investigating an officer who has deprived an American of his or her freedom
during an illegal detention or arrest. And, as a practicing Fairfax County
attorney, I can personally vouch for the fact that unconstitutional
deprivations of freedom have certainly taken place in Fairfax County, and these
violations were remedied by the Court, but not by the police department.
“When was the last time that Fairfax County
disciplined an officer for violating the rights of an American? Every time a
lawyer wins a Motion to Suppress, it means that a defendant’s rights were
violated. Yet, the responsible officers do not get publicly disciplined, if at
all,” I advised the senior editor of Townhall for his article on this issue.
This is a very important point to digest.
When an accused prevails on a Motion to Suppress, it indicates that his Fourth
Amendment rights have been violated by the arresting or detaining officer. But
does this neoliberal Chief care about his officers violating constitutional
rights, true freedom violations? That question can only be answered by asking
another question: has this Chief ever suspended and investigated an officer for
violating the constitutional rights of an American? Does this Chief even have a
directive on how to re-educate a police officer on constitutional rights when
an officer’s arrest or detention was deemed unlawful in court? According to
trusted sources, the answer is no, to both of these questions.
Moreover, the deprivation of freedom under
the Constitution is a violation of freedom that has been recognized by American
courts for centuries, the issue that defines our criminal justice system. The
deprivation of “freedom” that the neoliberal Chief found unacceptable, however,
is a freedom that this Chief personally bestowed upon a group of people that he
personally and politically favors, a made-up anti-law-enforcement sanctuary
city “freedom.”
By not redressing the constitutional
violations of American defendants and only enforcing the politically-motivated
“rights” of illegal immigrants, this Chief, undeniably, creates favoritism in
his department for illegal immigrants over Americans. This is discriminatory,
disgraceful, and wrong.
Fairfax County Police Body Camera Program To Begin In Phases
NOBODY trusts these hoods .If
you’re a young person considering working with the Fairfax County Police
Department, stop and think about that. EVEN THEIR EMPLOYER DOESN’T TRUST THEM.
Do you really want to spend twenty years of your life around people like this?
You can do better.
The Fairfax County Board of
Supervisors approved a body camera program for police officers.
By Emily Leayman, Patch Staff
MOUNT VERNON, VA — The Fairfax
County Board of Supervisors approved a permanent body camera program for police
officers on Tuesday. The program is set to begin in May 2020 and will be
implemented in phases over three years.
The approval follows a 2018 pilot
program involving the Reston, Mason and Mount Vernon police district stations.
These will be the first three stations implementing the permanent program. All
district stations and other key operational staff will receive body cameras.
According to the implementation
plan, 416 body cameras will be issued in fiscal year 2020, followed by 338 in
2021 and 456 in 2022. Positions will be added to the Fairfax County Police
Department, Office of the Commonwealth's Attorney and Department of Information
Technology.
Once the program is fully phased
in, it will give officers 1,210 body cameras and require $6.65 million in
baseline funding. One-time funding was included in the fiscal year 2020 budget,
and baseline funding will come in the 2021 budget and future years as needed.
The $4.3 million in funding for this year was available from the Reserve for
Ad-Hoc Police Practices Review Commission.
Fairfax County Police
Feedback on body cameras came
from an American University research team's survey during the pilot program,
which ran from March 3, 2018 to Sept. 1, 2018. The researchers surveyed 603
residents who had an interaction with an officer during the pilot program as
well as two squads of officers before and after the program. Results saw
overwhelming support for body cameras from residents. Opinions among officers
were mixed; one squad's perception of body cameras became more negative after
the program, while the other's became slightly more positive.
A loon is a loon is loon
There was an article, produced by NBC News entitled “How this
police department is fighting for its officers’ mental health after suicides” which
focused on the Fairfax County Police department and police suicides in general.
That’s peachy
keen but the article completely failed to mention other research that showed
that police isn’t so much the cause of suicide as is the fact that our society
doesn’t vet the people we hire to do police work. In other words, these guys are
disturbed human being and would consider suicide if they were cops or plumbers
or lawyers.
Don’t think its
true?
Spend some time
with a Fairfax County Cop and then let me know what you think.
You're damn right they should be on camera
McLean group supports countywide police-body-cam effort
by BRIAN TROMPETER, Sun Gazette Newspapers
Fairfax County officials should move ahead with implementing a
body-worn-camera program for the county’s police force, according to a
resolution passed Sept. 4 by the McLean Citizens Association’s board of
directors.
“Body-worn cameras are a
win for all of us, members of our community, the police and the
criminal-justice system,” said MCA president Dale Stein. “What they record can be reliable evidence
for investigations and prosecutions, a deterrent against unjustified
complaints, and pluses for transparency
and accountability.”
As of last year, more than 80 percent of large U.S. police
forces were using such cameras or planning to do so, the resolution noted.
If implemented countywide, the Fairfax County Police
Department’s camera program would cost an estimated $30 million over five
years.
County police conducted a pilot program at the department’s
Mason, Mount Vernon and Reston district stations between March and August 2018,
with half of the officers at each station being assigned cameras and half not.
A report on the pilot program, released in July this year, found
county residents overwhelmingly supported widespread adoption of the camera
program. Police agreed the program would improve evidence-gathering efforts,
increase departmental transparency and help settle complaints against officers.
MCA’s resolution asks the county to begin implementing the
body-worn-camera program as soon as possible this fiscal year. MCA board
members noted they would not have supported the program if it would have
competed budgetarily with officers’ salaries.
Why is this not a surprise?
Fairfax County Juvenile Detention
Officer Accused of Sexually Assaulting Minor: Police
A
juvenile detention officer in Fairfax County, Virginia, was charged with raping
and having sexual contact with a minor, authorities say.
Clifton
Townsend Jr., 60, was arrested Monday on four felony sex offenses, the Loudoun
County Sheriff's Office said.
The
victim was not someone Townsend knew through his job as a detention officer,
the sheriff's office said.
Investigators
were told about the alleged crimes on Saturday.
Townsend,
of Leesburg, was charged with rape, carnal knowledge of a child and two counts
of sodomy.
He is
being held at the Loudoun County Adult Detention Center on no bond.
