Fairfax County Police Watch: September 2026

As remarkable as this…

Fairfax County Board Chairman Jeff McKay has actually stood up against the Fairfax County Police by pausing the installation of new stationary Flock automated license plate recognition (ALPR) cameras.

McKay cited increasing privacy concerns shared in “hundreds of emails” by Fairfax residents.

“Public safety and public trust go hand in hand, and as such, Fairfax County must join this broader conversation as well,” McKay said on Monday.

While according to McKay the 84 licensed stationary Flock ALPRs in Fairfax County’s program were used in a transparent manner and subject to a number of guardrails, he acknowledged the privacy concerns with regard to data collection and moved that the Board of Supervisors direct FCPD to pause the installation of any new stationary Flock ALPRs,

McKay also asked for more information from private users like homeowners’ associations and commercial property owners to get a fuller picture on how the technology is used by private citizens and businesses.

In the end, the cops will funnel campaign contributions around under employees names and they’ll get their camera….think I’m wrong?

Watch and see.

Oh grow up....

At some point, the remaining members of the media that continue sucking up to the Fairfax County Police has to end. It’s the ethical and professional thing to do. Nobody, anywhere, ever wants the media in a romance with the police. Its unethical and its dangerous.

Yet we have Maggie Roth, an associate editor for Northern Virginia Magazine, who should know better, penning an adoration article about a police department that has systematically murdered citizens and abused the law (Please, please, please, let me know if you want the evidence to back up that statement)

Her article is on “new technology to streamline procedures and speed up police response time.”…one of them being drones.

Drones, in the hands of an irresponsible and reckless quasi-politics police force like the FCPD is dangerous. They’ve abused their weapons, they’ve abused the power of arrest, morally they’ve fired at least six member of the force in the past 12 years for sexual crime….what is there to make us believe they won’t abuse drones?

But is that mentioned in this gushing piece on the many wonders of the FCPD?

Nope.

Maggi Roth needs to mature a bit before she’s allowed to run around calling herself a journalist.

Do you tryst the Fairfax County Police to gather and keep your driving data? Well, they are, and their is nothing you can do about it

Fairfax County, VA — Fairfax County Police officers recently utilized license plate reader (LPR) technology and a drone to locate wanted suspects, recover a stolen vehicle, and make multiple arrests. In three separate incidents, officers acted on real-time alerts from Flock Safety LPR cameras to quickly identify and locate vehicles connected to criminal activity. (From the FCPD)

The Fairfax County Police lack the discretion, intelligence, restraint and integrity to have LPR’s….we’re talking about a police department that a few years back shot a guy through the head…. for gambling….so its not like these guys above mass surveillance.

The Fairfax Police can’t say enough good things about LPR’s, but across the country hundreds of grass root campaigns are trying to get them banned form their towns and states, and for good reason.

Do you trust the Fairfax County police not to weaponize the data they collect?

Do you trust the Fairfax County police, who have minimal oversight of day to day policing chores, not to share the information they gather from LPR’s…on you and your neighbors…..with federal government ?

Morrogh finds cop he doesn’t love. In other news, hell freezes.

Probe of fatal police shooting goes to federal authorities

By Justin Jouvenal/Post

The Fairfax County prosecutor has turned over the investigation of a fatal police shooting of an unarmed Springfield man to federal authorities, citing complications with the five-month-old case.

Commonwealth’s Attorney Ray Morrogh said the U.S. attorney’s office for the Eastern District of Virginia has agreed to continue the probe into the death of 46-year-old John Geer, who was shot during a standoff with Fairfax County police in August. No one has been charged in the incident.

“There is a conflict of interest that has arisen in the case,” Morrogh said Thursday. “And there is a second potential conflict of interest that has arisen out of my office. . . . This is the prudent thing to do.”

Morrogh declined to describe the nature of the conflicts because the investigation is ongoing. The U.S. attorney’s office said Thursday that it could not confirm or deny any investigation or comment on pending investigations.

Police went to Geer’s Pebble Brook Court home on Aug. 29 because of a report of a domestic disturbance. Geer’s father, Don Geer, said his son was upset because his girlfriend, the mother of his two children, had decided to leave him.

John Geer had thrown his girlfriend’s belongings in the front yard. She called police and told them that Geer had a firearm. Police said they tried for about 50 minutes to persuade Geer to leave the home, but he refused.

Don Geer said he watched the climax of the encounter. He said that he could not hear what officers were saying to his son but that he saw him standing with empty hands resting on top of a screen door at the home’s entrance.

At some point, John Geer began to slowly lower his hands and an officer opened fire, hitting Geer in the chest, his father said. Geer retreated inside and closed the door. A SWAT team eventually entered the home and found Geer dead.

Don Geer said detectives later told him that his son did not have a gun on him at the time of the shooting but that there was a holstered handgun a couple of steps from the front door.

Don Geer said it appeared to him that the shooting was unjustified, but he was unsure what to make of the probe being turned over to federal authorities.

“I don’t know whether that’s good or bad — if I had a better idea of why they are doing it, I could form an opinion,” he said.

Geer and friends of his son have been critical of how long the investigation has taken, but Morrogh said police and prosecutors were working to explore all the evidence. He did not think federal prosecutors would have to start from scratch.

“No one wants these things to linger on,” Morrogh said.

Our ink will outlast his career

Under the reign of former Chief of Police Rhorer the Fairfax County Police arrested a man for not wearing clothes in his house while he made coffee, set up an eye doctor on a gambling charge and then used the SWAT team to kill him. An investigation into the charge that the Doctor’s primary clients were cops has never been investigated. The police gunned down an emotionally unstable man because cop who shot him wrongly assumed the man was trying to escape. He wasn’t. The cops also shot dead four other citizens under highly questionable circumstances. The department under Rhorer was sued multiple times by citizens. So did they fire Rhorer? Naw they promoted him. According to news reports Rhorer draws a salary of $191,168 per year as Deputy Fairfax County Executive as well as a concurrent pension from the Fairfax County police of $173000 per year.

Occupation by force

According to the most recent U.S. Census figures, nearly one in five Fairfax residents (17.5 percent) is of Asian descent while Hispanics make up nearly 16 percent of Fairfax’s overall population. Those numbers drop considerably when applied to the Fairfax County Police Department, where only 4.3 percent of officers are Asian and 4.1 percent Hispanic. White officers make up 84 percent of Fairfax County’s 1,360-member police department, significantly higher than the county’s general population (54 percent white). Almost 90% of the force lives outside the county.