Fairfax County Cops
Fairfax County Supervisor John W. Foust: Reward moral cowardice...send John Foust to Congre...
Fairfax County Supervisor John W. Foust: Reward moral cowardice...send John Foust to Congre...: As a county supervisor John Foust could have spoken out against the murders of unarmed, innocent citizens by the Fairfax County Police....
FAIRFAX COUNTY POLICE TO DUPLICATE EFFORTS OF THE METRO TRANSIT POLICE
The Washington DC Metro system is among the safest in the
world but the Fairfax County Police have decided to police the metro lines in
Fairfax County despite the fact that Metro already employees 490 officers, 64
special police and 91 civilian personnel to do police the lines.
Fairfax County’s Police chief, another grossly overpaid nameless,
faceless guy in a silly suit said “It increases our chances of arresting black
people from DC and murdering more unarmed white men, we’re really looking
forward to this, mostly because we’ll get away with it”
The chief denied that this is a waste of tax dollars that
could be used to build a second beltway or hire more teachers. “We waste money
all the time, so there must be a lot of it to waste, right?”
He also denied that there are too many police on the force
and not enough for them to do “Firstly, if there are too many cops on the force
why are there so many cops on the force? Answer me that. Second firstly, we’re
trying to balance out our unarmed kill ratio and this will allow us to murder
more black men and maybe even some of those one who don’t talk in no good English,
especially the urine colored ones”
Supervisor Gerry “Opps Dearie! Hyland said “I just love me a
man in a uniform, I’m Gay and there is certainly nothing wrong with that but all
I can say is; it let it rain men in uniform!”
FOIA Request On Effectiveness Of License Plate Readers Greeted With A Blank Stare By Virginia Police Department
from the
I'm-not-familiar-with-the-sort-of-thing-you're-asking-for dept
Law enforcement agencies are
generally pretty happy with their automatic license plate readers. It allows
them to harvest millions of plate/location records without having to exit their
vehicles, much less slow them down. It also allows them to spring from their
cruisers with guns out and force non-car thieves into submissive positions
while they perform the sort of due diligence that should have been completed
long before the cops/guns exited their respective holders.
What they don't seem to like is
anyone asking questions about the massive databases they're compiling or
whether they've bothered to institute any minimization/privacy policies. When
questioned, they usually talk about what a great tool it is for crime-fighting,
even if said tool contains millions of useless photos entirely unrelated to
criminal activity. Some even claim that every single photo in the database is
integral to ongoing investigations and therefore cannot be subjected to
minimization procedures, much less the pesky FOIA requests of surveilled
citizens.
And sometimes, these agencies
are so sure they like the tech that they can't even be bothered to determine
whether it's actually doing anything to assist in the business of law
enforcement. Stephen Gutowski at the Capitol City Project recently asked the
Fairfax County, VA police about the effectiveness of its license plate photo
database and got this 'FILE NOT FOUND' statement in response.
This letter is in response to
your FOIA request in which you requested the number of ALPR records Fairfax
County currently has on file. This number is constantly fluctuating, but as of
05/20/2014 at 1003 hours there were 2,731,429 reads in the system.
You further requested any
available metric the county uses to determine the system's effectiveness. It
was found that the Fairfax County Police Department does not possess any such
responsive materials based on the information you requested.
The assumption here is that the
system works. The Fairfax County PD occasionally posts arrests linked to ALPR
database hits and… well, beyond that, the PD draws a blank. Presumably a
handful of arrests justifies a multi-million image-and-location photo database.
But this lack of self-assessment shouldn't be acceptable, not for an agency
that has abused its technology in the past.
It came to light late last year
that the Fairfax PD trolled political rallies to grab more plate data, racking
up nearly 70,000 photos in five days. This abuse prompted a local lawmaker to
push legislation aimed at severely limiting, if not completely eradicating,
ALPR readers in his district. Not a bad idea, as far it goes.
Virginia law enforcement
agencies aren't going to be happy with this move and they'll be able to
mobilize a pretty powerful opposition. But these are the same entities that
tried to bury info on plate readers back in 2009, simply because they felt the
public might try to get the system shut down if they knew what was going on.
But the lack of controls or any gauge of the system's effectiveness shouldn't
be allowed to escape unnoticed, because the failure to monitor error rates and
hits can result in catastrophic consequences for citizens whose plates trigger
false hits -- something this system does at twice the rate of recoveries.
The license plate readers
demonstrated a high error rate. Four ALPR vehicles used in Fairfax County over
the course of five nights in February 2009 scanned 69,281 vehicles. The camera
database produced twelve bogus hits and recovered four stolen vehicles, for a
recovery rate of 0.6 percent and an error rate of 1.7 percent.
The technology can be used
responsibly, but law enforcement agencies with tough minimization policies are
almost nonexistent. And as we've seen twice in the last month alone, officers
relying on faulty data aren't making an effort to verify database hits before
attempting to effect arrests. Someone's going to be hurt or killed because of
bad data, and hardly anyone in law enforcement seems to be concerned. If they
did, strict policies on verification and disposal of non-hit data would be the
rule, rather than the exception.
Fairfax County Police Watch: Troy officer charged under state's super drunk law...
Fairfax County Police Watch: Troy officer charged under state's super drunk law...: By John Turk Rochester Hills The Troy police officer accused of drunken driving will soon face jury trial in district court. Ca...
Fairfax County Cops Find another way to intrude on Our Lives.
The Fairfax County cops are painting a car
with distracting sentences and parking it near a busy road to stop drivers from
being distracted.
This leads us to the question…..does it
get….could it possibly get..…more white trashy than this? People, we have got to elect someone to the
Board of Supervisors who will take charge the morons at the police department,
I mean, my God, what’s next? Mandatory
incest? Regulation flower planters in old tires on our front lawns?
It’s terrible to pick on the mouth
breathers I know, and yes, understandably most cops on the Fairfax County
police force probably have an abandoned car on cinderblocks in their drive way
in Loudon County so printed cars make sense to them and yes, were in Dixie, but
Good Lord, can we at least try to pretend
were not? I mean….printed cars?
I’m going to write this next sentence
slowly so as not to confuse the cops: A car
covered in anti-drinking- and-driving sentences will not decrease the vast
number of idiots who drive around drunk. They’re too drunk to read the notes
side of the car and attention deficit drivers are too busy to read it.
The cops say that it’s okay for this idiocy
to happen because the printing cost is being covered by Transurban, the people
who operate the 495 Express Lanes. You
want stop crime? Arrest those shameless money hungry pricks.
Start there and work your way up to
finding the missing files in the John Geer shooting case then you’ll have the credibility
to tell other people about obeying law.
We would rather live with drunk and distracted driver than with a police
force that guns down unarmed citizens.
Fairfax County Police Watch: cumulative damage.
Fairfax County Police Watch: cumulative damage.: It’s about cumulative damage. It took the Fairfax County Police four days to report to the public, the people who pay them and provid...
Fairfax County Police Watch: Fairfax County Police kill another unarmed man.
Fairfax County Police Watch: Fairfax County Police kill another unarmed man.: According to the latest reports, the homeless man gunned down the shoot-happy Fairfax County police was unarmed. It appears that the...
Fairfax County Police Watch: Why even bother reporting this?
Fairfax County Police Watch: Why even bother reporting this?: Fairfax County officer fatally shoots man during fight at homeless shelter. The gun happy Fairfax County police shot and killed another...
The world dumbest people gathe ron the police force: Cop accidentally shoots two female bystanders
NYPD officer accidentally shoots two female bystanders while trying to stop a man running into traffic
A New York police officer accidentally shot two bystanders as he tried to stop a man running into traffic.
A 54-year-old woman was struck in the leg as she leaned on her four-wheeled walker across from the bus terminal where the officers were.
Another woman, 35, was grazed on her buttocks by a bullet.
The accident happened after the man, who was stood in the middle of a busy New York road, reached into his pocket as officers approached, leading them to think he was armed.
Two cops fired a total of three shots at him, but two hit the women.
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said the man had "simulated shooting the officers".
Witnesses said someone nearby shouted out "he's got a gun!" just before the shots rang out.
Both women were rushed to hospital but were released later that night.
The incident took place just a block from Times Square at 9.30pm when a 35-year-old man ran into a road and blocked the traffic.
While cars swerved to avoid him, dozens of police arrived at the scene and attempted to subdue him.
Eyewitness Fabiola Ferere, 30, said: "It was like he wanted to get hit."
Police eventually used a Taser to bring the man under control and took him to hospital.
Fairfax County cops execute another unarmed man
The Fairfax County Police shot an killed an unarmed man who
was alone in his home. The police caused the situation, they escalated the
situation and they handled it poorly and are expected to take several weeks to
develop their justification story.
Police
said they were responding….in force with a tank, a helecopter, a SWAT team, K-p
units, and no less than 23 cops to a “Domestic dispute” but
Geer was alone in the house. The victim of this police shooting this time was John
Geer, age 46, a kitchen installer with no history of violence had to end in
death. He left behind two teenage
daughters.
According to Geer’s father, Geer had been throwing his estranged wife’s
belongings, she is 24 years old, into the front yard because she was leaving
him, so she called the cops who marked the call as a domestic dispute. She was
asked if there were guns in the house and she said there was. The weapons were
under lock and key
There's a Maura Harrington listed at the same address where the
killing took place.
Neighbors recalled him as even-keeled, outgoing and helpful.
A search of police records in Fairfax County showed that Geer was found guilty
of drunken driving in 2010 but no convictions for violent crimes or more
serious offenses. A neighbor said he talked to Geer in the minutes before the
police encounter. He said that Geer didn’t say anything suicidal but he was
deeply shaken about the impending breakup.
For forty minutes the cops demanded that Geer, who stood at
his front door, for forty minutes "They just continued to tell him: come
out, come out, come out," said one witness.
Geer had not showed the cops any sort of weapon nor had he advanced
toward them. He made no mention of harming himself or others. Geer’s hands were
up in the air, seconds before he was gunned down because they were on top of
the storm door. He as shot in the chest while slowly lowering his hands. He had
no weapon in his possession and there was no weapon within his reach.
Shot in the chest, Greer pushed his way back into the house
and bled to death. The heros from the SWAT team entered the house by way of
tank one hour later and found Geer dead.
Concerning the shooting of yet another unarmed citizen, this one gunned down in his own home…
Concerning the shooting of yet another unarmed
citizen, this one gunned down in his own home…….he was alone at the time….this
was not a hostage situation…. at this
time the people of Fairfax County need to be respectful of the Fairfax County
Police and the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors because they need to concentrate
on a justification story.
Concerning the shooting of yet another unarmed citizen, at this time the people of Fairfax County need to be respectful of the Fairfax County Police and the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors because they need to concentrate on a justification story.
LYING WEASELS AWARD
Concerning the shooting of yet another unarmed
citizen, at this time the people of Fairfax County need to be respectful of the
Fairfax County Police and the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors because they need
to concentrate on a justification story.
Fairfax County Cop charged with fabricating report of hit-and-run driver in crash last year ….will probably be promoted as a result.
A Fairfax County cop has been charged with making up a report about his cruiser having been struck by a hit-and-run driver. Officer Carl Biggs’ cruiser was the only car involved in the May crash in Annandale. His car hit a utility pole on Gallows Road. Police say Biggs initially told investigators that another car ran a stop sign and struck his cruiser, causing it to spin out and hit the poll. Biggs wasn’t injured in the crash.
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