OFFICER BANK ROBBER




“A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.” Howard Scott

In June of 1997, a 23-year veteran of the Fairfax County police was charged armed (Shotgun) robbery of bank and stealing more than $70,000.  The cop had three years to go before retirement.  After he was arrested, the cop was relieved of duty and placed on administrative leave with pay.
Let me repeat that. After he was arrested, the cop was relieved of duty and placed on administrative leave with pay.
The cop was eventually sent to prison on the charge.
On March 24, 1998, the  cop was indicted on similar charges in Stafford County Police said the former Fairfax Count Cop  robbed the National Bank of Fredericksburg on Nov. 21, 1995, and Sept. 17, 1996.


On April 18, 1979, Adrienne Kent Lamb was charged with shooting her husband to death during an argument.  The husband was a retired Fairfax County cop.

In March of 2012 a 16-year veteran of the Fairfax County Police who resigned from the force in June 2010, took a pistol and shot his 13-year-old through the head and then killed himself.  The Fairfax County Police refused to provide information on the murder suicide.

On June 20, 2012,  a Fairfax County cop was charged with domestic assault and battery by Prince William County Police. The 44-year old cop allegedly attacked a 21-year-old man causing him injury

In 2006, a Fairfax cop was arrested for drunk driving. The cop smashed his Hummer H3 sport-utility vehicle into the back of a delivery truck and refused to take a breath test. He was placed on administrative leave with pay pending an internal investigation. The case was dismissed. The arresting cop didn’t show up in court.  Pretty good deal, huh? Think you’d get the same from the police?  And what was the outcome of the internal investigation? You’re joking right?

In 2011,  a Fairfax County cop was arrested for DWI after he crashed his car into a  utility pole.


…AND THAT’S ALL WE EVER HEARD ABOUT IT
In August of 1974, Acting Fairfax County Executive Doug Harman ordered an investigation into police misconduct after the state’s attorney started its own investigation into widespread criminal wrongdoing in the department.  Two county cops were suspended….not fire but suspended…. after refusing to answer questions about graft and corruption inside the force.


Filing a Complaint against a Fairfax County Cop.  Not really a very good idea at all.


The role of the Fairfax County Internal Affairs office is to protect the image of the police department and gather enough evidence to protect the police department against possible lawsuits by citizens who have been abused by the police.

There is a reason the Fairfax County Police never, ever, make public, any disciplinary action on its own.  It’s because disciplinary action by the department is extremely rare and on those few occasions when it is meted out, it is notoriously lenient.  Nor is the  reprimand kept in the cops file permanently. 

Why?

Because the Internal Affairs office has no interest in solving your problem or bringing corrupt and abusive cops to justice.  So filing a complaint a Fairfax County cop is virtually useless and probably dangerous. Remember, they know where you live and kind of car you drive and your car’s license plate number.     

But if you insist on filing a complaint against a cop, do it in writing.  Never ... ever...under any circumstances at all should you walk into a Fairfax County police station by yourself  or with others,  and try to file a complaint against a Fairfax County cop.  It is a dangerous and stupid thing to do.  National testing had shown that even in well-managed police departments, civilian who file in-person complaints are harassed or falsely arrested.
Again, if you absolutely feel that you must file a complaint against the police do it by certified mail.  Certified mail gives you proof that you filed a complaint against a cop.  So in the event you are harassed by the cops later on and need state or federal intervention, you have evidence that the harassment is real. 
As soon as possible write down everything that happened. You have about a three months to file the complaint, so write it down, put it away, and come back to it later. That usually takes the emotion from the complaint.
Tell the truth.  The cops are going to assume you’re a lair and will look at every word to catch you in an exaggeration or a lie.  If they do, they’ll probably threaten you with arrest.
 Your compliant should include:
The name of the cop you're filing a complaint against. Name or badge number will do.
What the cop said or did to justify the complaint.
Date, time, and location it happened.
If you have witnesses you should ask each of them to write a separate account of the incident.
In the rare event that cops try to contact you by phone or mail to do a "follow up" about your complaint, don’t answer any questions and never, ever, go down to the police station for an interview.
Everything they need to know is in your letter you sent. That’s it. End of conversation. Stick to what you said in your complaint letter and say nothing else!



If You Are Stopped in Your Car
The Fairfax County Police are dangerous.  If you are stopped by one of them while you are driving, try to stop, if you can, in busy well-lighted area.
Show your driver's license and registration upon request.  You can, in certain cases, be searched without a warrant so long as the cops have probable cause.
To protect yourself later, you should make it clear that you do not consent to a search.
A cop has no right to detain you unless there exists reasonable suspicion that you committed a crime or traffic violation. In order to get around that, a cop will try to initiate a "voluntary" conversation with you.  Again, say nothing.
If you are given a ticket, you should sign it, otherwise you can be arrested. You can always fight the case in court later.
If you are suspected of drunken driving and refuse a blood, urine or breath test, your driving license can be suspended.
If you are arrested or taken to a police station you have the right to remain silent and talk to a lawyer before you talk to the police. Tell the police nothing except your name and address. Do not give explanations, excuses, or stories. You can make your defense in court based on what you and your lawyer decide is best.
Ask to see a lawyer immediately. If you cannot pay for a lawyer, you have a right to a free one, and you should ask the police how the lawyer can be contacted. Do not talk without a lawyer.

If you are arrested.

As you will read in the pages ahead, the Fairfax County Police lie, and lie regularly, about circumstances that led to an arrest. So if you are arrested SAY NOTHING. Don't answer questions the police ask you, except your name, your address, and your age. Speak to the cops only after you have hired a lawyer and the lawyer tells you what to say.
Even if the police don't read your Miranda Rights "the right to remain silent, anything you say can and will be...," don't say anything until your lawyer or public defender arrives. If you "voluntarily" talk to the police, then they don't have to read your Miranda Rights to you.
Lies the Fairfax County cops will use to get you to talk
The cops will lie, cheat, steal and trick you into talking your way into an arrest.  Always, always, always say this;  "Am I free to leave?  If not I'm going to remain silent and I want a lawyer."
Here are some lies the cops will tell you to get you to indict yourself. And your answer is "Am I free to leave?  If not I'm going to remain silent and I want a lawyer."

"You will have to stay here and answer my questions" "Am I free to leave?  If not I'm going to remain silent and I want a lawyer."

"You're not leaving until I find out what I want to know." "Am I free to leave?  If not I'm going to remain silent and I want a lawyer."

 "I have evidence on you, so tell me what I want to know or else." "Am I free to leave?  If not I'm going to remain silent and I want a lawyer."

"You're not a suspect, were simply investigating here. Just help us understand what happened and then you can go." "Am I free to leave?  If not I'm going to remain silent and I want a lawyer."

"If you don't answer my questions, I won't have any choice but to take you to jail." "Am I free to leave?  If not I'm going to remain silent and I want a lawyer."

 "If you don't answer these questions, you'll be charged with resisting arrest." "Am I free to leave?  If not I'm going to remain silent and I want a lawyer."

 "Your friend has told his side of the story and it's not looking good for you, anything you want to say in your defense?" "Am I free to leave?  If not I'm going to remain silent and I want a lawyer."
The Supreme Court has ruled that cops can lie to the public. Fairfax County cops are trained at lying, twisting words and to being manipulative. SO DON’T SAY ANYTHING.
Teach your children that the policeman IS NOT their friend and that they must call a parent for permission before they talk to the cops ABOUT ANYTHING.
The cop may seem nice and pretend to be on your side they're wanting to learn your habits, opinions, and affiliations of other people not suspected of wrongdoing. Don't  answer a cops questions, it can be very dangerous. The cops WILL take a seemingly harmless bit of information and use and misconstrue it to harm you or a loved one.
If you're arrested and cannot afford an attorney, you have the right to a public defender. If you get a public defender always make it clear to the judge that the public defender is not representing you, but is serving as your counsel.
Don't talk to other jail inmates about your case. It might be a cop your talking too or one of the many snitches the police have working for them.
Within a reasonable time after your arrest or booking, you have the right to make a local phone call to a lawyer, bail bondsman, relative, or any other person. The police may not listen to the call to the lawyer.

If the Cops come to your home.
If the police knock on your door, you DON'T have to open the door unless they have a warrant signed by a judge.
There is NO law that requires you to open your door to the cops.
Don't open your door with the chain-lock on, the cops will shove their way in.
You don’t to answer the door if they knock on it and you are not required to answer their shouts to open the door.
Like any other vampire, cops need your permission to come into your home.  So never invite one into your home. All that does is to give them the opportunity to look around for clues to your lifestyle, habits, friends, reading material.
Letting the cops into your home also tends to prolong the conversation. DON’T TALK TO THE COPS.
If you are arrested directly outside your home, the cops might ask if you would like to go inside your house to get anything. The answer is No.  I's a trick.  Don't let cops, especially the Fairfax County Police, into your home.
Never agree to go to the police station if the police want to question you. Just say, "I have nothing to say"
* In some emergency situations cops are then allowed to enter and search your home without a warrant.  As an example, when a someone is screaming for help from inside your home, police are chasing someone into your home, police see a felony being committed or if someone has called 911 from inside your house.

Car and Body Searches
Remember, the cops wouldn't ask you to search your body or your car if they didn't need your permission to search.
Denying a cops request to search you or your car is not an admission of guilt, it's your right.
The law does allow cops to pat down your outer clothing to see if you have any weapons. If the cop feels something that he believes is a weapon, then he can go into your pockets and pull out the item he believes is a weapon.
A cop may ask you or even demand that you empty your pockets, but you have the right to say no.  No matter what a Fairfax County cop will tell you, there is no law that requires you to empty your pockets when you are told to do so.

The only time a cop should be taking your personal property out of your pockets is after you have been arrested.
The cops are allowed to handcuff you and/or detain.  Don't resist or you will be arrested There's a big difference between being detained and being arrested.
If you are arrested and your car is towed, the police are allowed to take an "inventory" of the items in your car. If anything is found that's illegal, the police will get a warrant and then charge you with another crime.
The cops need your permission to have a conversation, never give it to them. There is NO law that says you must tell a cop where you are going or where you have been.

Traffic Stops and Your Rights
Keep your license, registration, and proof of insurance in an easily accessible place such as attached to your sun visor.  Fairfax County Police are gun happy.  They kill people, often without good reason.  When pulled over stay in the car, turn on the interior lights and keep your hands on the steering wheel.
Sit still and wait for the cop to come to you.  Any sudden movements, ducking down, looking nervous or appearing to be searching for something under your seat is dangerous.  Again, Fairfax County Police tend to shoot first and ask later.  If they kill you, they will more than probably get away with it and they know that, so do nothing.
Don’t talk.  If the cop asks you “Do you know why I stopped you?” the answer is “No”.  Usually Fairfax County doesn’t know why he or she stopped you except their bored or under their arrest quota (The Fairfax County Police deny they have an arrest quota) 
If the cop asks “ Do you know how fast you were going?" the answer is “Within the speed limit” because the cop is trying to get you to do two things, admit that you committed a traffic violation and to get you to "voluntarily" start a conversation with him.  Remember the police officer is not your friend and should not be trusted.
The cop might start asking personal questions such as "where are you going?” etc.  At that point it's the perfect time to exercise your rights by asking the police officer "AM I FREE TO GO?" because there is NO legal requirement that American citizens provide information about their comings and goings to the cops.
A cop can detain you during a pull over for no more than 15-20 minutes, according to the Supreme Court.















"I HAVE A DEEP, PATHOLOGICAL NEED TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY"




"We do not want a police state, but we need a state of law and order, and neither mob violence nor police brutality have any place in America."  Hubert H. Humphrey

On July 16, 1957, a 62-year-old man named Elmer Sours watched a car fly out of control and hit a tree.  Sours ran to the car and told the driver to sit still until help arrived, and then stayed with the victim. Witnesses say that a cop, age 26, arrived on the scene and shoved Sours from behind, knocking him away from the car, pushed him on to the ground and handcuffed him.
 The cop lied to the judge and said that Sours refused to move from the scene but the ambulance crew said that Sours was 15 feet from the accident and moved another ten feet when the cop screamed at him to move back.  The judge acquitted Sours and criticized the cops conduct.  A day later, two cops were speeding across the county and turned their car over.


On August 14, 2955, the 19-year old son of a Falls Church Dentist was sitting in a car with a friend, acting loudly, as teenage boys tend to do.  A Fairfax County cop, without warning, came over to the car and punched the boy in the face.  According to police, the boy and his friends then beat the cop up.  The cops dropped the case before it went to court.



On November 7, 1963, a Fairfax County cop was accused of tossing 17-year-old boy in the back seat of his cruiser, handcuffing him and slapping him repeatedly.  Then he arrested him on traffic charges.  He slapped the boy in the presence of at least a dozen cops and citizens.  The cops did nothing to stop him but two of the witnesses, one was a Justice of the Peace, reported the assault.  The police investigated and in light of overwhelming evidence, found the cop guilty and suspended him for two weeks with pay but made the suspension retroactive, meaning the time he had been sent home while the case was investigated would serve as his punishment.  The cop said he didn’t punch the boy over and over again, but had only pushed him.


YEAH, WE’RE PRETTY MUCH GONNA DO WHATEVER THE HELL WE WANT TO DO…AND WE’LL GET AWAY WITH IT.

On August 14, 1979, witnesses watched as a gang of Fairfax County Police clubbed a hand cuffed man they had arrested for drunk driving.  The man, who was recently released from the hospital for a gall bladder operation, was bent over a fence and punched in the face by officers and then slammed on to the hood of his car.
 A month later…..at public expense….the Fairfax County Police launched a public relations campaign to improve their image.  The cops had already killed two unarmed and innocent civilians that year. 
Making matters worse, of the 95 complaints filed against the cops by the people of Fairfax County, the cops and the cops alone determined that only 27 of the 95 complaints were worth investigating.  Only one cop was suspended…for one day without pay.  Another received an oral reprimand. 
That same month, outraged citizens formed a group called Fairfax Citizens for Improved Law Enforcement.  The group issued a public statement that it opposed the police plan to create a citizen’s advisory group which it called "Window dressing". 
The few people in the county, who support the police version of a powerless advisory committee, were, almost needless to say, the board of supervisors….who shared office with the police.  To appease the public, in February, fourteen elected representatives from Fairfax County launched an investigation into racism and brutality by the Fairfax County Police department.
 The officials promised that they would examine the unusual deaths of three healthy men within six months of being held in the county jail and the men’s accusation of police brutality while they were held.  After the first day of publicity photos, the group was never heard from again and the cops went on doing what they wanted. 

AMAZINGLY ENOUGH THE COPS DON’T KEEP TRACK OF THE PEOPLE THEY BET UP
In 1991, the Fairfax County Police announced that the department does not compile data on police brutality complaints and that it has decided that all matters pertaining to police personnel are protected by the States secrecy laws and it does not have to share any information with the general public….so there.

MOW THAT LOUD AGAIN AND WE’LL KILL YOU
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.” Friedrich Nietzsche

On May 22, 1980: At 11:00 PM, police responded to a call about a man mowing his lawn.  An argument broke out and one of the two cops beat the man to the ground with his flash light.  A second cop was also accused of holding the man while he was being beaten, but…and despite witness testimony…the second cop denied he was present for the beating.  The man’s nose, rib, and hand were fractured in the beating.  The man sued in federal court.  The Taxpayers paid and the mice that make up the board of supervisors said and did nothing.

By 2010, the Fairfax County Police have been named as a defendant in over 200 court cases in less than twenty years.

HOW BAD DOES IT HAVE TO BE WHEN THE TEAMSTERS THINK YOU’RE A THUG?
"When the police are indistinguishable from the bad guys, then society has a serious problem." Lynne Abraham

May 21, 1985 Two Fairfax County cops moonlighting as security at a local cement manufacturing company assault striking workers who were standing on public property.  The Teamster International calls the attack "A stunning case of blatant police brutality"

NOW HERE’S A SURPRISE……………..
On April 19, 1981 a Washington Post feature story runs with the lead in headline "Fairfax Police: Highest Number of Misconduct Charges in Suburbs"


On September 27, 1980 four citizens watched what they called "police brutality" when a Fairfax County cop beat a man into submission with a flashlight after he resisted arrest. 
The cop demanded that the on lookers assist him in the arrest, they refused, out of fear of the cop "might turn his flash light on us".
 Police later traced one of the on lookers by his license plate and eight hours after the incident, went to his home and arrested him for refusing to assist the cop.  It is, to anyone recollection or recorded history, the first time in the Washington area that a citizen was arrested for refusing to partake in an arrest.


I DON’T CARE WHAT IT COSTS, I DON’T LIVE HERE
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”  Carl Sagan

1972: The cost to operate the county police, fire services, courts, and welfare services was $69,000,000.  By 2010, the police budget alone will exceed $150,000,000


In 2008 the average salary for a cop in Fairfax County was about $86,000. (That same year crime was up in the county by 6%)



THE LORDS OF THE PUBLIC DOLE TAKETH AND….TAKETH
In January 1975 the County Supervisors ordered the cops to cut back spending by 3%.  The cops responded that “it will consider the cuts” but that they, the police, are "still in the discussion stage" and informed the board of supervisors that if other departments in the county cut their budgets first, the police might not have to reduce their spending.  The county was facing a $13 to $23 million dollar deficit and ordered all department, not only the police, to reduce spending by 3%.

In 1984 the police department requested almost $25,000 for shoes for its cops.  The department argued that since the county pays for the officers uniforms it should pay for their shoes as well.

The police entered county politics in 2009.  Facing unprecedented cuts in public safety jobs and programs due to a $650 million budget shortfall, the Fairfax County police union hired a consultant and commissioned a poll of likely voters. Their hope was to use the results to convince county supervisors that residents would rather spend tax dollars on fighting gangs and keeping unsafe vehicles off the road than on parks and libraries.  The survey costs the union $30,000.

In 1996 the annual police overtime costs to the county exceeded $9,000,000 among less than 800 officers.  By 2008, Fairfax County cops base salaries range from about $45,000 to $81,631.  Sergeants were paid a minimum base of about $74,000 and a maximum of $85,713, though some cop and sergeants earn more by working overtime.


FREEBIES
It wasn’t until 1966 that Fairfax County Police officially stopped taking “Discounts” on free food.  At Tops Drive in chain, the cops got a 50% discount on their orders.



THE ROYAL ENTITLEMENT AIR FORCE
In 1991, it was reported that the Fairfax County Police Air force of four helicopters was costing county taxpayers $4,000 a day and required 17 full time employees (Other reports put it at 18 employees) to keep it flying.  At that point, the Fairfax County Police had one fewer helicopter than the entire Virginia State Police yet it averaged only a one-day use as a backup ambulance service and assisted in a few arrests each month. 
In the midst of their military escalation, the cops complained that they were understaffed “in critical areas” but refused to reassign even one of the 18 helicopter crewmembers to those areas. 
The District of Columbia is the only other police department in the region that has a helicopter but its use is strenuously restricted to the business of policing.  However, the always publicity conscious Fairfax County Police Department was quick to line up free photographs and demo rides for school children with their fleet. 
The Air Force was always used to give a retired cop a joy ride and fly high-level cops out to county paid conferences in nearby West Virginia  The police go their first $3,000,000 for two helicopters in 1982, (plus an additional $378,000 for pilot training) the same year that the County limited teacher’s salaries to a 3% increase. 
On August 24, 1993, the cops crashed one of their chopters in an almost comical mishap; the police pilot and the co-pilot and the ground crew forgot to unplug the million and half dollar copter from a battery unit on the ground.  In November of 1993, after no opposition from county supervisors, (I know, that’s a given, but I felt I should point it out anyway), the cop spent $1.5 million to replace the crashed helicopter.



WHY GO THROUGH A WHOLE CAREER WITH ONLY BEATING SOMEONE WHEN YOU CAN KILL THEM TOO?

October 26, 1993, a Fairfax cop shot and killed Jesus B. Arreaga, in a stairwell at the Meadow Woods apartment complex, because the cops saw the handle of knife Arreaga had in his waistband, mistook it for a gun and shot him.  Because as we all know, a knife handle looks almost exactly like a gun handle.  I think we can suspend reality and agree on that for a moment.


WE WILL KILL YOU TO KEEP YOU FROM KILLING YOURSELF

On November 3, 1993, a man was threatening to kill himself with a knife after a domestic dispute, so the cops shot and killed him.  It’s that simple .It was the fifth time that year and the second time in the last week that county police have been involved in a shooting.


SHOOT FIRST, LIE LATER
From 2005 through 2010, nine people were killed in Fairfax County police-involved shootings.  Twelve people have been wounded.


OUR POLICY ON DEALING WITH THE MENTALLY ILL?  KILL THEM

“A recent police study found that you're much more likely to get shot by a fat cop if you run.” Dennis Miller

Ian Smith, Herndon man who was shot by a Fairfax County police even though he was known by police to be severely mentally ill.  When the cops gunned him down, he was wielding a plastic replica of a pistol with a red tip on the end of it.  The cops were close enough to see that it was a toy because he was gunned down at very close range, close enough to leave burn marks on his clothes.



In 1972, the Fairfax County Police started using hollow tipped Dum-Dum bullets that expand inside their victim s bodies, almost assuring death.  By the rules of international treaty, the US Military has not used the bullets since 1900.


“It is easier to commit murder than to justify it.”  Aemilius Papinianus
The entire affair still smells bad.  In January of 2006, the Fairfax County Police SWAT team shot and killed an unarmed optometrist named Salvatore Culosi while they were arresting him for suspicion of sports gambling.
A Fairfax County detective said overheard Culosi wagering on a college football game at a bar. That in itself seems strangely coincidental.  The cop said he then befriended Culosi. During the next several months he talked Culosi into raising the stakes on friendly wagers. The cop pushed the betting up to one single bet of $2,000 in a single day, enough to charge him with running a gambling operation.
On January 24, 2006, the cop called Culosi and arranged a time to come by his house and collect his winnings. A few hours later, a barefoot Culosi stepped out of his house to meet the cop and was shot dead.
The cop who killed Culosi, a 17 year veteran of being on the public payroll and trained at taxpayers’ expense in firearms and tactics, said that when he jumped from his car, the car door bounced back, striking him in the side and causing him to pull the trigger.
Let me repeat that. The cop who killed Culosi, a 17 year veteran of being on the public payroll and trained at taxpayers’ expense in firearms and tactics, said that when he jumped from his car, the car door bounced back, striking him in the side and causing him to pull the trigger.
The shot went directly through Culosi's heart. So what the police wanted the public to believe, and the story that they still abide by, was that the cops fired a shot by mistake that went directly through the victim’s heart. Vegas wouldn’t cover those odd.
The killing may have been unintentional but it was certainly negligent. There was absolutely no reason the cop should have had his hand on the guns trigger or had the weapon pointed at Culosi. 
However there are some who question whether the shooting was in fact unintentional at all.  The cops were placing bets with Culosi that much was certain but for how long? And how many cops were placing bets with him? How much did they owe him?
But why the cops used a SWAT team to arrest a gambler they we replacing bets with is still unknown. Culosi, who had no criminal record; had never owned a firearm; and presented no threat of violence, flight, or resisting arrest.
At the hospital, the cops stopped a nurse from notifying Culosi’s parents that they had killed their son. Instead the cops waited for five hours before calling the family to tell them that they had shot their son dead over a highly suspicious gambling arrest.
The cops finally admitted that using a SWAT team to arrest a suspected sports gambler was unnecessary and that they could have used "lower-risk, less complex arrest techniques”.  To which the entire  nation replied “Well duh”
In the months that followed, the detective who set Culosi badgered Culosi's friends and family. He took their names and numbers from the dead man’s cell phone and computer.
Culosi's brother-in-law, told The Washington Post  that the cop called him and menacingly asked, "How much are you into Sal for?"
A lifelong friend of Culosi's, said that the cop called him and accused him of being a gambler. The calls, Gulley told the paper, smacked of intimidation aimed at discouraging a lawsuit.
Arrogant and angry at being questioned in a county they virtually own, the Fairfax County police department is notorious for declining virtually every request for information from the media and anyone else. It took the police one year to release its investigation results to Culosi's family.  And that was done only after legal action was taken to make them provide the information to the family.
With the eyes of the world on them, the police said it would “conduct a review of policies and procedures involving” the use of SWAT teams in making arrest.  If they made the review, which is doubtful, they never made it public.
The killer cops name was released to the public only because the The Washington Post's Tom Jackman reported it based on a tip from a confidential source.
The Culosi family suspected that the cop mistook the cell phone Culosi had in his hand for a pistol and shot the young man dead.  The family hired their own investigators to exam the case. He concluded that based on the police department's own measurements of the crime scene, when the cop pulled the trigger he was away from his vehicle and much closer to Culosi than he had claimed.
Worse for the cop, by using the recorded locations of shell casings, police vehicles, and Culosi's body, the detectives produced computer animations showing that the incident could not have happened the way Rohrer said it.  And yet Rohrer was never disciplined.
The cop who shot him was demoted from the SWAT team and suspended without pay for three weeks. As lenient as the punishment was, the police union objected. They felt the punishment was going overboard. The union said that the punishment "may be politically motivated because of all the media attention" and that the suspension was "way off the charts" and that an oral or written reprimand would have been more appropriate
 Robert F. Horan Jr., the chief prosecutor and the best friend the Fairfax County Police ever had,  declined to prosecute the cop or refer the case to a grand jury.
Two months after the cops gunned down the unarmed Culosi,  the police issued a press release warning the people of Fairfax County not to gamble.
The county paid Culosi's family $2 million to settle a civil lawsuit.  The cop who shot him and the cop who tormented the family afterwards paid nothing. The taxpayers picked up the bill.  Not a single penny was taken from the police department’s enormous  budget. Nothing happened to them. Nothing changed.   


WHY KILL YOURSELF?  WE’LL DO IT FOR YOU.
On November 3, 1993, Michael Cleveland was shot and killed by cops after he threatened to kill himself.  It was the fifth time that year and the second time in the last week that county police have been involved in a shooting.


July 8, 2008, David Michael Przewlocki was killed by cops after the police responded to a report of an apparent suicidal man at Summit Square Drive.  The found Przewlocki outside his apartment on the sidewalk threatening to kill himself with a gun.  So they shot him dead.

WRITE ANOTHER BAD CHECK AND THE NEXT TIME WE WON’T MISS.
In July of 1998, a woman named Diana Elizabeth Tyler wrote a bum check.  (For $ 261.25 to a Lorton antiques store.  The check was returned because the bank account had been closed.) 
She didn’t show up for her court case and on the day in question was stopped by police for erratic driving (On an expired license).  Tyler made a run for it and sped her 1995 Oldsmobile down Richmond Highway.  The chase ended in the parking lot of a shopping center. 
When Tyler, who was unarmed, refused to leave her car…..the cops said she struggled but Tyler said she didn’t struggle….the cops shot her in the neck.  The good news (for the cops) was that they got to use one of their helicopters to fly Tyler to the hospital. 
The police were very, very quick to release Tyler’s name and address to the press but refused to give a single name of any one of the eight cops involved in the shooting nor would they explain why Tyler was shot.  Warren R. Carmichael, a Fairfax police spokesman, said the investigation of the police investigation the police “could take several weeks to complete.” 
We don’t know if it took that long or not.  The results of the investigation, if in fact there was one were never released to the public.  Carmichael, however, said "Given the circumstances of the chase, the fact that weapons may have been drawn is appropriate" The Board of supervisors said and did nothing.


WRITE A BAD CHECK, WE SHOOT YOU, STEAL LIKE A COMMON THIEF, WE SUE YOU
On January 13, 1997, reports were that the Fairfax County Police Association was suing its former president alleging he spent thousands of dollars on personal items.


KICK IN DOOR FIRST, EXPLAIN YOURSELF LATER

In October of 1988, cops raided a house looking for a murder suspect.  After searching the upper portion of the house, they went into the basement were an elderly couple from the Dominican Republic were renting a single room.  They didn’t speak English.

They were awakened by the cops kicking in their bedroom door.  Not knowing what to expect, the man grabbed a pistol.  The cops shot him in the stomach and killed his wife, shooting her five times in the throat and face.  In all the cops fired 11 shots in a matter of seconds.

Before they left, the cops ransacked the room, taking the room’s door with them as evidence.  When asked to explain the cops actions, the chief of police became indignant and told reporters “We’re not going to explain who did what or who said what” The Board of Supervisors  leaped into action and demanded an investigation of the by the States Attorney General’s office….naw, that didn’t happen and it never will happen.  


AND THEY GAVE THIS GUY A GUN
July 3, 2007, a Fairfax County cop was arrested and charged assault and burglary for allegedly breaking into an ex-girlfriend's house and threatening her.  He was also charged with stalking and misuse of a telephone. 
The ex-girlfriend said the cop pursued her relentlessly after their breakup (They had been together less than four months) and forced her to seek a restraining order against him. 
The complaint said that the cop called her numerous times and at one point, at about 6:30 in the morning, he "broke into my house and stormed upstairs, (Finding her with an ex-boyfriend) started yelling at me….  I kept telling him to get out and that he was acting crazy, and he responded, "If I were crazy I would have shot you both. 
At this point I feel it is important to state that Rick is a police officer [with] Fairfax County," Mavica wrote, adding that he was wearing part of his uniform and had his firearm strapped on.” 
He left but attempted to contact her by calling her cellphone and sending a flurry of text messages with ion message saying "pick up your phone.  25 cent texts add up quick and I'll send 1,000 today.”  The next day, the young woman found the cop sitting in front of her car.  When she attempted to leave, he began to follow her.  She called 911 and drove to a police station, she said.

On January 18, 2008, a Fairfax County cop was placed on leave after being charged with harassment of an ex-girlfriend.

AND THEY GAVE THIS GUY A GUN…………
On November 29, 1983 a cop recently released from the force was arrested and sent to a mental asylum after being labeled "armed and dangerous" after fleeing an incident involving his wife.

AND THEY GAVE THIS GUY A GUN…………
In 2000 a Fairfax cop officeraccidentallyshot another cop in the chest during a drug arrest.  The Fairfax Coalition of Police and numerous officers said an oral or written reprimand is typically given when a Fairfax officer accidentally shoots someone…..you can’t get any tougher than that now can ya?

AND THEY GAVE THIS GUY A GUN…………
On January 9, 2010, a former Fairfax County cop, whose wife was slain in 1991, was sentenced to 19 years in prison for abducting her twice in the months before her death, but he was not charged with killing her.
 In 2007, Nevada authorities found the former cop living in a one-room apartment in Las Vegas and brought him in for questioning.  During several taped conversations, Webster denied killing or kidnapping his wife.  But he did say, "When I get angry, people get seriously hurt or they die”.


…AND THE GUN JUST WENT OFF, JUST LIKE THAT.  REALLY.  NO REALLY, IT DID.
In August of 1971, an off-duty Fairfax County cop shot and killed himself at his home in Arlington last night.  Arlington police ruled his death “accidental”.  Life insurance played no role in the finding.  No, really, it didn’t otherwise it could have been termed a suicide.


…WE HAVE DIFFERENT RULES THAN YOU
Although the cops worked over a man for drinking in August of 1974, less than two years earlier, in 1972, the adult son of a friend of the chief of police was released from jail on the chief’s orders after he was arrested for drunk driving.  The Board of supervisors said and did nothing.
In March of 1967, a Fairfax County cop’s behavior was so bad that the police took the very highly unusual step of firing him.  The cop had been sent to a woman’s home to investigate reports of a man exposing himself.  Several hours later, the cop returned to the woman’s home, drunk, with a female companion.  The police refused to comment on what happened next, but the woman was hospitalized.  Needless to say, the fired cop was not arrested.


THAT’LL TEACH EM
In January of 1993, the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, conceding that its police promotion procedures discriminated against women.  They Board of Supervisors then punished the police by agreeing to pay cash settlements to the  bias complaints. No money was taken from the police budget and cops were fired.
In April of 1976, a Fairfax County Police detective,  a 16-year veteran was charged with  felony embezzlement.  He was convicted of malfeasance and fined $500. 

IT’S CALLED MAIL FRAUD
In September of 1984, Fairfax County Police Chief Carroll D. Buracker accused Fraternal Order of Police Lodge of "unconscionable" fund-raising tactics, charging it had sent numerous bills and past-due notices to businesses in Northern Virginia for unordered tickets to a variety show.
The cop’s flyers said that proceeds from the show were going to benefit local community activities, including neighborhood watch and home security programs.  "(The) Lodge did not contribute in any way to these activities in Fairfax County," he said.  The chief of police never reported the crime to postal authorities or made arrests for fraud. The Board of supervisors….wait for it…..did nothing.


FOUR DAYS WITHOUT PAY, THE BAD GUY ESCAPES…THAT’LL TEACH HIM.
On January 18, 2007 the Fairfax County prosecutor’s office was forced to
dropped an embezzlement case against a county employee because the cop who was investigating him was also having an affair with his wife.
 A Fairfax judge called the cops conduct "deplorable and inexcusable, and a discredit to the Fairfax County Police Department"…which, if you think about, is a very difficult thing to do, all considered. 
To teach the cop a lesson, he was suspended for four days without pay and transferred though that would have no impact on his salary.  The Board of supervisors said and did nothing.

 IT WOULD MAKE US LOOK BAD IF WE TOLD YOU WHAT HAPPENED
In June of 1991 the cops decided not to tell the media of anyone else that British Royal Air Force officer was kidnapped from a Tysons Corner parking.  The officer was taken in the trunk of a car to Prince George's County, where he managed to get out using a tire iron.  Several days’ later Fairfax police arrested two suspects.

On July 12, 1991 a fight between Hispanic and black youths broke out near Jeb Stuart High School at Baileys Crossroads.  One of the youths involved was charged with attempted malicious wounding and six others were charged with disorderly conduct.
Those charges showed up on a police computer in the public information office.  For that reason, a local newspaper and called the police headquarters to get more information.  Headquarters didn’t know anything about it.  The Mason District station knew about it but didn’t release any information about it.

In July of 1991, someone burned the word “Jew” into the front yard of a West Springfield family.  The police called it a destruction of property report and prayed the media wouldn’t pick up on it.  But they did and an account of the lawn burning appeared in a local newspaper when B'nai B'rith officials and the family reported it to the paper.

WE DON’T EVIDENCE SO WE’LL HAVE YOU LIE ABOUT IT
In April of 1980 the cops arrested and jail a man on burglary based on "positive ID’ by the housemaid.  The accused man hired a private detective who had the housemaid, a non-English speaking Asian, swear out a statement that she never spoke to police, and certainly didn’t give them a positive ID of anyone.  The arresting cops were not charged with false arrest nor reprimanded although one was "counseled" on being argumentative with the falsely accused citizen on the night of the arrest.
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On November 20, 1996, the court overturned the case of a man accused of murder because his arrest was made by Fairfax County Police who failed to offer the man his Miranda warnings.

August 28, 1980 A man convicted of burglary had his conviction reversed because his confession at the hands of Fairfax County Police was unlawful search and seizure 

April 5, 1988 The court reversed the conviction of a man convicted on three counts of robbery and one count of use of a firearm in the commission of a robbery because police tainted out-of-court identifications after the witnesses testified that the single photograph had aided them in their in-court identification. The cops got away with it. No one was punished or reprimanded. 

April 5, 1988: Conviction for second-degree murder was reversed and remanded by a higher court after the court found that a Fairfax County police officer knowingly testified to the contents of an out-of-court statement made by a witness on the very slick ground that the witness denied making the statement. The cops got away with it. No one was punished or reprimanded. 

June 19, 1992: A court agreed with a man accused of distributing narcotics to a minor. The court ruled that the Fairfax Police tricked him into a confession, failed to present evidence about defendant's state of mind, whether he was under the influence of any drug or alcohol. The court questioned whether he had acknowledged understanding his constitutional rights, or whether he had any prior experience with the criminal justice system. The cops got away with it. No one was punished or reprimanded. 

June 21, 1993: A conviction for abduction with intent to defile was overturned because the evidence collected by police could find intent to molest only by resorting to surmise and speculation, evidence gathered was inadmissible and statements gathered by the police were also inadmissible.

1993: Yet another case is tossed out of court when the court agreed that the Fairfax Police illegally stopped and searched the defendant’s car.

February 4, 1994: Yet again, a court ruled with a man who said that the evidence used against him by the arresting officer's, under the circumstances, was not a particularized and objective basis for subjecting the driver to a stop of a car. The judge ruled that the stop was not consistent with Fourth Amendment principles and that the Defendant's car was not violating the law before it was stopped by the officer so the constitutionality of the stop was not reasonable.

February 28, 1994: Court over turned the case of a man arrested after a police officer, conducting records checks on the vehicles parked outside a dining establishment, entered the wrong number while checking on defendant's plate.  Believing defendant's vehicle was registered to another car, the officer stopped defendant's car when he pulled out of the establishment.  After running a check of the correct license number, the officer arrested defendant for driving on a suspended license. 
The cop testified that his only reason for stopping defendant's vehicle was his erroneous conclusion that defendant was driving a vehicle with an illegal license plate.  Defendant argued that the evidence that he was driving on a suspended license was inadmissible because the investigatory stop was precipitated by an erroneous records check resulting solely from the negligence of the officer.  The court agreed

February 9, 2000.  The court overturned the case of a drug dealer because Fairfax County Police Officers did not have reasonable suspicion that defendant was engaged in drug-related activity, and did not observe anything on his person that indicated he possessed any type of contraband.  His mere presence near the target area and on a public street did not support finding of reasonable suspicion.

February 7, 2006.  The court reversed a conviction for illegal massage because no evidence given by the police proved beyond a reasonable doubt that defendant had received, or had an expectation of receiving, compensation for giving a massage.

On October 2, 2007 A court overturned the conviction of a drug dealer because the police lacked reasonable suspicion to stop the vehicle in which drug dealer was riding.  The court found the arresting officers testimony "incredible"

On March 2, 2007 a robbery case was overturned because Fairfax County Police got a confession without informing the suspect of his rights.

August 8, 2008 Court found that the police unlawfully seized evidence and the resulting search of a suspect’s vehicle was unlawful, requiring suppression of the seized evidence.


THE MORALITY POLICE
“A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.”  William Hazlitt

In 1968 a Fairfax County Police Captain assigned to the McLean, station was fined $100 for "encouraging the act of abortion”.  The cop sobbed went the fine was read by the judge.  He and two others were arrested in connection with the abortion-death of a police department stenographer named Ann Smith.  Smith, who was 30 years old, was four months pregnant when she died.  The cop contacted a businessman friend of his and asked if he could arrange “To help a girl who is in trouble” 
Again, the young woman died, the cop, the married father of two, who arranged for the abortion to be conducted by a hospital orderly, got off with a $100 fine and the son of bitch cried about it.

“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.”  Jacques Anatole François Thibault

On May 8 1985, a stripper named Linda Barnett, who worked for a company called "Have Fun, Will Travel" was sent to a Tysons Corner Holiday Inn to entertain a group of men she believed were giving a bachelor party.  The man who made the appointment said that the bachelor party was for "kind of a wild bunch”
 The eight men she entertained for were Fairfax County cops with apparently nothing else to do.  The cops rented the room.  Provided themselves with snack and liquor and snacks “to look like a party” all at taxpayers’ expense. 
When Linda Barnett finished her performance, she said, the men "tried to get me to prostitute myself.”  She said she refused and they refused to pay her the $150 fee they had agreed too.  However, they did arrest Barnett on a misdemeanor charge of indecent exposure.  It took eight cops…with a budget….to arrest the five foot five inch naked lady.  The Fairfax County prosecutor dropped the charges.  The Board of supervisors said and did nothing.

SO WE ROB BANKS ONCE IN A WHILE, WHAT’S THE PROBLEM?
“It's a lot of crooked cops out there.  They manipulate the system.”  Ludacris
On May 22 1987, 23-year veteran of the Fairfax County Police put a mask over his face and robbed the Central Fidelity Bank in Burke, Virginia.  He was also a suspect in at least three other area bank robberies, according to court documents, including one that FBI officials have described as "particularly violent”.

 SO WE STEAL FROM THE PROPERTY ROOM EVERY NOW AND THEN, SO WHAT?
“Cops and robbers resemble each other, so there's not a lot to learn in terms of learning the logistics of committing the crime or investigating the crime.” Andre Braugher
 In April of 1987, a veteran detective on the Fairfax County Police force was convicted of malfeasance after investigators found property in home that was recovered in commercial robbery investigations and placed in a police evidence room.  The items included computer games, a radio, a tool kit, six pairs of expensive sunglasses, a 21-piece Precision tool kit, three sets of nickel-plated steel handcuffs, knickknacks from the Franklin Mint and assorted computer equipment.


EXTREME FORCE
Q: How many cops does it take to throw a man down the stairs?
A:None. He fell.

On February 23, 1980, two cops were accused of using "extreme force" on a citizen who fled the scene of a minor car accident.  The case was settled in federal court….in other words the taxpayers picked up the tab for the beating and the cops got off free of charge.  In 1980 there were 140 formal complaints against Fairfax County police, more than all of the jurisdictions in the greater DC area.  "Over the years" writers the ACLU "there seems to be a more pronounced pattern of complaints in the Fairfax County Police"
In 1997, the Fairfax County Police posted that fewer than 25 percent of murders, rapes, robberies, aggravated assaults, burglaries, larcenies, and motor-vehicle thefts in Fairfax County were solved.  In other words, 75 percent of these crimes remain unsolved.
In 1979, there two complaints a week against the Fairfax County Police.  The police investigated the police and found that only 27 complaints deserved action….if it can be called action.  Twenty of the cops received oral reprimands and nine were given letters of reprimand. One was sent home for one day….one day…without pay.


WE’LL ARREST YOU NOW AND FIGURE OUT A CHARGE LATER
“The purpose of a jury is to guard against the exercise of arbitrary power--to make available the common sense judgment of the community as a hedge against the overzealous or mistaken prosecutor and in preference to the professional or perhaps over conditioned or biased response of a judge.” Byron White

On June 13, 1986, of a photographer named William J. Kelly Jr., was wrongly arrested him for a sexually abusing and illicitly photographing his own two children.  Kelly was initially held without bond and jailed for seven days before he was released on bail. 
Kelly said the police coerced his children into making statements that he sexually abused them and asked if the children if they ever "fooled around" with their father.  When they said "no", cops warned the children that they might be sent to a juvenile detention home if they didn't change their story. 
Kelly's 10-year-old daughter said that when she told the cops that her father had not indecently touched her or photographed her, that the cops said if you don't tell the truth, you'll go to juvenile jail . . . so I told him yes . . . .  I thought if he heard what he wanted to hear everything would be all right."  In August of 1987, a federal jury found that the cops violated the civil rights and granted him a paltry $55,000.00

On October 14, 1979, a judge dismissed all charges against members of the Rickman family who were involved in a scuffle with the cops.  The judge also criticized two cops and in throwing out the case said d he could not find "one scintilla of evidence" to support the initial drunk driving charge that prompted the incident.  The family said that the two cops who arrested Rickman attacked them without provocation in their own front yard. 
According to witnesses, on August 10 year-old Timothy Rickman allegedly flashed his lights and honked his horn at a patrol car.  The cop followed Rickman into the family's driveway and started a fight with him when Rickman allegedly refused to be questioned and called for help.  The cop called for reinforcements. 
Rickman was charged with drunk driving and assault and obstruction of justice and assault charges were brought against his father, his mother Arlene, and his stepbrother.  "They ought to put both (officers) behind the desk.  Neither one of them are ready to work in the street," Arlene Rickman said “I couldn't expect much punishment even if they found them guilty.  I'm surprised they're doing this much.  This is like a police state . . . and they really protect their own," she said. 
On the lighter side, the police said its internal affairs section, the department charged with protecting the image of the police, was going to investigate the case.  Remarkably, and I know this is hard to believe but the department cleared one of the cops involved and transferred another. 
Even the chief of police noted that the cop "not really being punished, just reassigned" Unfortunately for the cops the FBI opened an investigation into the case looking into possible use of excessive force.

“It is not a Justice System.  It is just a system.”  Bob Enyart
In July of 1999, a man named showed a lifeguard at a Reston Virginia Health Spa, a member of the spa, naked photos of himself.  A few hours later a Fairfax County Police detective wrongly arrested a man named James M. Brocco for the crime. 
The cop searched Brocco’s home and took him to jail.  The police, who run their own publicity department, immediately sent a new release stating that James M. Brocco had been arrested for indecent exposure and included a photo of Brocco with the story.  Several newspapers printed the stories.
 The actual perpetrator was later arrested.  The case cost Brocco $3,500 in legal fees.  The cop who arrested was protected from a wrongful arrest law since county government officials are protected from liability with a few exceptions.


DEAF AND DUMB
On October 16 1993 a South African diplomatic couple were having a garden party at their home in Oakton when the cops arrested them for public drunkenness.  The cops came to the home after neighbors complained about noise at the outdoor party. 
The diplomat and his wife were walking two guests to their car when the cops arrested them.  The couple told Fairfax County cops that they were diplomats, that they had immunity from arrest and showed the cops State Department issued identification to prove they were diplomats.  It was ignored.
 The cops arrested them anyway and kept them in jail for almost four hours.  On the lighter end of things, the Fairfax police said they would conduct an internal investigation of the two arresting officers' actions.  “They will likely be disciplined if the department finds they acted improperly”


THE SHORT LIVED BUT WELL INTENDED CITIZENS FOR IMPROVED LAW ENFORCEMENT
In 1979, there was a 27% increase in complaints from citizens against the Fairfax County Police.  Also in In 1979, a group called Fairfax County Citizens for Improved Law Enforcement and Community Relations called for citizen councils that could review complaint cases against the police, but, amazingly enough the Police rejected the proposal.  The Citizens for Improved Law Enforcement was formed early after the widely reported Donald Ferguson case in which a young black man died at Western State Hospital after his arrest in Fairfax and jailing there


PAPER WORK CHALLENGED
In 2010 the Fairfax County police launched a computer system was supposed to do away with a lot of paperwork and allow paper work challenged cops  to enter traffic tickets, arrest data and vital intelligence into an online system that would be instantly available to anyone who needed it. 
But the cops couldn’t figure out how to work the system or found it to troublesome and as a result wrote 17,600 fewer traffic tickets in a one period a 28 percent drop compared with the same period the year before and costing the county more than $1 million in lost revenue.

In 2004, the county police bought a computer-aided dispatch system.  It didn’t work.  The cops operating the system blamed….wait for it…..the system and said that it  failed so often and functioned so poorly that they had to trash it before its minimum 10-year lifespan was up.  The cops didn’t say if they shot the system to death but the internal affairs office was expected to issue a preemptive case investigation proving everything was the system fault.   


THE SYSTEM IS WORKING JUST FINE.
In April of 1984, Mary Ryder and Claude Lineberry were arrested on bench warrants and jailed after they failed to appear in court on an assigned date.  The cops said they didn’t appear in court on hearing divorce/child support proceedings.  The court records said otherwise.  The judge in the case apologized but the Fairfax County police said they had looked into the incidents "and we're satisfied that the system . . . is fine"


REPORT TAKERS
Starting in 1971, for the next four decades, the Fairfax County States Attorney will not charge a Fairfax County police officer with a crime.  That same year, a management consulting study stated that the Fairfax County Police "are essentially neighborhood guards and report takers rather than police officers" and have a dismal record for solving crime with just 2.7% of all felonies solved versus a 21% national solved rate.

SOMETIMES OUR RECORD KEEPING BRINGS US OUT AHEAD
In 1977, there were 117 valid complaints against the cops and 27 other complaints that could not be proved or disproved.  Complaints were filed against 283 cops of whom 44 had received prior complaints in just the year before.
In 1978, there were 648 cops on the force.  About 400 were in the field.  There were 253 complaints filed against them in ten months of that year.  About one complaint per day, per cop.  Of that number, 36 were for excessive use of force.  One cop was fired for stealing funds from a police station fund.  Two cops were disciplined for “unwarranted use of their pistols”.  Three cops, under investigation resigned from the force rather than face termination.

SPEAKING OF REPORT TAKERS, DON’T BOTHER US WITH YOUR SHOOTING, WE’RE BUSY FILING PAPERS
On Feburary 2, 2008, a bipolar man named Jeffrey S. Koger was on the run.  He had stolen more than $3 million from homeowners associations that were managed by his property management company.  He bought a gun a few weeks before and had been practice shooting with it onside of his house, randomly shooting up the walls. 
That night Kroger followed a cab driven by a man named Ayman Sirelkatim.  A short time before, Kroger had driven to Alexandria and, for no apparent reason, walked up to a taxicab stopped at a light and fired several shots into the face, shoulder, and chest of the driver. 
Kroger then got back into his car and drove away and a short time later started to follow Ayman Sirelkatim cab.  Kroger rammed Sirelkatim’s cab and Sirelkatim pulled his cab into the parking lot of the Franconia station of the Fairfax County Police. 
Seeing Kroger follow him, Sirelkatim pulled out of the station lot.  However two another cab driver, Najib Gerdak and his friend Scott Duke, were in the lot talking.  Koger drove in, climbed out of his car and shot Duke and Gerdak several times, and then drove off.
 Before the shooting started, Gerdak said he went into the station to let police know that Kroger was chasing the cab driver Ayman Sirelkatim across the parking lot.  Gerdak said that there was a woman at the front desk, not in a police uniform, had her feet up and was asleep.
"She fell asleep watching TV," Gerdak said.  He said that he tapped on the window until she woke up  and told her, "There are two crazy people chasing each other out front, a cab and an SUV”.
"She tells me," Gerdak said”, 'You need to go back outside and tell the cabdriver to call his own dispatcher.  "
Gerdak then walked back to the parking lot when Kroger shot him four times.  A sixth shot struck the cross around Gerdak's neck, in front of his heart, and ricocheted.  Somehow Gerdak managed to 911 and then waited 30 minutes for the ambulance to arrive. 
In June of 2010, Gerdak sued the police for $10 million.  The case was dismissed by a reluctant U.S. District Judge because it was filed too late.  Judge James C. Cacheris said he was "deeply unsatisfied" by his own ruling earlier, "as the conduct alleged here is shocking to say the least.”  The Fairfax County Police refused to release the name of the civilian employee who refused to help him and referred to as “Jane Doe”.

In 1968, in an attempt (That failed, thank God) to intimidate merchants from opening on Sunday, the cops arrested a part time  assistant manager of a Tysons Corner drug store and charged him with violating Virginia's blue laws.  A few days later, a 35-year-old County cop was charged with shoplifting while moonlighting as a supermarket security guard….so it all kind of evens out.  Stealing from a store doesn’t come to close to stealing from the Boy Scout but that’s what a Fairfax County cop did.  He was indicted for  embezzling $280.00 from the Boy Scout of America on November 21, 1981.

2006: The sergeant's test was being investigated for possible cheating.  The outcome of the investigation is secret and will not be released to the public.
Three years later, on February 12, 2009, three Fairfax County police officials were temporarily removed from their duties after a cop for a promotional exam said he was leaked questions to the test. 
Among those suspended was a lieutenant who was an assistant commander in the organized crime and narcotics unit and former assistant commander of the McLean district station. 
A month later, on March 18, 2009, two Fairfax County cops accused in a cheating scandal involving promotional exams left the department, and two others were placed on administrative duties with pay. In March of 2009, two cops accused of cheating on a  promotional exams left the police force.  They were not arrested, jailed or fined. Pretty good that the cops gave the cops.

In 1993, 10 female cops complained to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission about a "locker room attitude" in the police department and said they had been denied promotions and key assignments because of their sex.

On February 23, 1995, a jury found that a Fairfax County police lieutenant named retaliated against a female civilian employee who had complained about sexual harassment at work.  A communication aide assigned to the department's Franconia station, said that the cop had harassed her because she would not strike up a personal relationship with him. 
She said that after she filed the charges,  the cop made up a fake disciplinary charges against her.  The lawsuit initially sought $ 1 million in damages on behalf of  the woman and three female cops who also alleged that Jackson harassed them.  The charges made by the other women, who alleged abuses dating to 1982, were dropped from the case after the judge ruled that their complaints were not filed on time.


MY FRIEND THE TERRORIST
January 2008: A ranking police officer pleaded guilty in federal court to illegally using police computers in 2005 to check license plate numbers for a friend, though he said he did not know the friend was under federal surveillance and the vehicles checked were being used by federal agents in a terrorism case.