Adding up the salaries, this photo cost the people of Fairfax County $807.00...ever wonder why we don't have enough money for more roads in the county?
Sharon"Show me the money" Bulova presents award to the police for paying her on time at election
Adding up the salaries, this photo cost the people of Fairfax County $807.00...ever wonder why we don't have enough money for more roads in the county?
Same old Culture of Contempt, different name.
Read this Sharon, there might be money in it for you.
(Now she'll read it)
How do we solve the police corruption problem in Fairfax County?
Easy.
We bring in fresh blood. We hire
someone who will adjust the attitude of arrogance and entitlement that permeates
the department, an outsider who will change the culture of contempt and
brutality that is the Fairfax County police.
With an honest police chief, meaning someone who wasn’t bred in the
Fairfax County Police department, we won’t need to discuss a citizen oversight
panel to investigate entrapment and murders by the cops-from –another-county on
the local citizenry.
With an ethical man or woman at
the top of the Neanderthal chain, the cops reckless spending could be roped in
and the several thousand yearly misconduct complaints against the police would
actually be investigated and the results of those investigations would be made
public, since, after all, the public pays for them.
And no, the Fairfax County Police ARE NOT investigating complaints
against them. Snap out of it. This isn’t a fairy tale. This is a police
force out of control and to prove that, not one incident report on the killing
of eight unarmed citizens in the past decade has been released to the public in
all probability because they were never investigated in the first place.
Anyway, back to an honest police chief.
The board of supervisors would fire an honest chief who tried to drag
the Fairfax County police force into the light of day. They’d fire him and they
would do it within a year. And they would do that because it’s really
a matter of values which is why Sharon Bulova and her cronies will never bring
in an outside person to manage the police.
What the board wants is someone who has no values, someone who won’t
question the practice of sweeping complaints about the cops under the carpet.
And most importently they want someone who will make damn sure the right
political contributions arrive into the right hands.
To prove the point, instead of hiring an outsider who will change
things, Bulova and her friends promoted whatever the hell is name is as chief
of police….it doesn’t matter what his name because he doesn’t matter. He won’t
rock the boat. He won’t change anything. That’s what matters to those people. To
prove the point, when asked what his plans for the department are, Chief
whats-it responded that he intended to hire more cops under the guise of
diversity. We don’t need more cops, of any color or creed. More cops will just
add to the problem. Fix the cops we have and then hire new ones.
It doesn’t matter, really. None of this matters because it will never
change. This guy, chief what’s his face,
will put in his time and retire with a pension that would make him a
millionaire in most 3rd world countries.
And when he goes, the next irrelevant person chosen from the inside the
department will take his place and nothing will change and Fairfax County, a
21st century place, will go on with its 19th century police force.
And no, correcting the corrupt and often
criminal Fairfax County Police Department won’t be solved by police oversight
because oversight can’t fix the core of the problem within the Fairfax County
Police Department which is contempt by the cops for the citizens who pay them (and
pay them much too much, way above the national average)
Oversight in Fairfax County will solve nothing except to give a bunch of
angry and bored retired guys something to do while adding even more bureaucracy
to a county government already saturated in red tape, overhead and redundancy.
Want an example of costly overhead and redundant positions? Former
police chief Rhorer’s six figure salaried job as “extra special police chief” or
Head Dwarf in charge or whatever the hell he is this month, can’t be justified any
more than the board of supervisors can explain the 20,000 foot, multimillion
dollar addition to the McLean police palace or the several hundred unused cars
the police department purchased and doesn’t use or the small fortune of public
money the cops are secretly pouring into drones.
Aside from not doing anything to change the cop’s culture of contempt
the claim that a citizen’s review board
would protect the public from continued
unlawful actions by the Fairfax County Police is unfounded . The fact is that is
no evidence can be found anywhere in the United States to justify that claim.
Citizen’s review boards do not curtail violence and other felonious activities
by the police upon the citizenry because virtually every citizen’s review board
in the nation is a dismal failure. Most are powerless to enforce their will and
are manipulated into subservience by local politicians, people like Bulova and
Hyland and that’s exactly what will happen in Fairfax County if we get
oversight.
It’s also not true that a citizen’s review board would protect the
police department from unjustified criticism by the public. Snap out of it….the cops in this county don’t give
damn what the public thinks. That’s mean
you. They could care less what you think. You have no value to them and in so
long as the board of supervisors continues to reward the cop’s culture of
contempt the police will continue not to give a damn about what the public
thinks of them or anything else.
Bulova and Hyland handed us an “independent
auditor” to investigate the hundreds and hundreds of complaints about abusive
behavior by the occupying force of outsiders that is the Fairfax County Police.
And to their credit they did with a straight face and doing anything straight
must have been a real chore for Hyland but anyway……the reason the board of
supervisors dreamt up the “independent auditor” wasn’t to derail calls for
police oversight. They did it because they can fire anyone in the position who
either audits the police or acts independently.
Elected officials, generally, are
all about power and live in the cult of self adoration. They don’t want or give a damn about what’s
good for you. They want what’s good for them and controlling the “independent
auditor” is what’s good for them. Citizens controlling a police review board
does not benefit members of the board of supervisors in any way, shape, manner
or form. In fact, police oversight would draw attention away from people like Sharon
“Show me the money” Bulova and Gerry Dearie Hyland and it would sap their
control over the county.
Besides, the fact that the board of supervisors funds almost 100
advisory boards but can’t bring itself to create a citizens advisory board
should tell the citizens advisory board advocates that a citizens review panel
ain’t gonna happen.……..so snap out of the piss trance and revert to plan B and
make a real difference, here and now, through political action and pulic awareness
because police oversight until pigs fly….pun intended.
If you want change don’t expect the local government to bring about that
change. The only way to rein the police in is to fire the people who hire the
cops and you will only be able to do that if you have grass roots support. Form
a political action. Work the polling precinct with handouts on the issue of
police corruption. That should be easy
since Virginia seems to have elections every three weeks.
Build blogs and websites aimed at informing
the people of Fairfax County about how corrupt, contemptuous and bloated the
Fairfax County Police are. Send speakers
to community groups and churches to bring the issue to light. People will listen if you give them something
to listen too and if you include them in the process.
Police oversight isn’t the silver bullet that will end the systematic corruption
and contempt that is the Fairfax County Police ebcuase the answer to fixing the
Fairfax County Police isn’t one thing it’s many things.
Not running the police department like a secret hillbilly cult is also
part of the answer.
Firing Sharon Bulova and keeping
her out of public office forever is a very large part of the answer.
Holding Gerry…that’s Gerry with G dearies…..Hyland accountable for his
“spend whatever the cops want” actions over the past few years is part of the
answer as well.
Putting a stop to the cops costly an unneeded publicity campaign is part
of the answer.
Forcing the cops to live in the county that pays them (and again, pays
them better than the national average) is part of the answer.
Cutting the police budget by at least 20% and placing that cash where
it’s needed (Schools, highways, more roads) is part of the answer.
Explaining to the cops that using lethal force when unnecessary is a bad
thing. So is setting up school teachers and eye doctors for false arrest. The
cops don’t understand that those are morally wrong things to do and their
actions support the claim.
As to the suggestion of bringing in the FBI to investigate possible
civil rights violation by the Fairfax County Police. Forget it, that ain’t
gonna happen in a Democratic stronghold while we have a Democratic
administration in the White House.
Besides investigating civil rights violations isn’t what we need to
investigate. What we need to investigate is the reason that our elected
officials are so hell bent on making the cops happy. To find that out, don’t
send in the FBI send in the IRS to investigate the hundreds of nickel and dime
political contributions that come into the Board of Supervisors campaign offers.
Have the auditors pay special attention to those contributions that come in
from Louden and Prince William Counties….you know…those two places where 80% of
the Fairfax County police force lives.
And the investigators should ask “Are these low ball contributions,
intended to fly in under the radar, coming from the sons, daughters, in-laws
and other relatives of the Fairfax County Police at the urging of the cops
union and if so, what are the cops getting in return at our expense? A lot, actually.
The secret diary of Gerry Hyland: Here you go Gerry with a G, suck on this for a whi...
The secret diary of Gerry Hyland: Here you go Gerry with a G, suck on this for a whi...: Every week we report on at least two or three children who are molested by police all across the United States. And those are just the ca...
Here you go Sharon, now you can't say you didn't know
Every week we report on at least two or three children
who are molested by police all across the United States. And those are just the
cases that make it to the media. So with that in mind and recalling the Sean
Lanigan case, we look at the Fairfax County cops arrest of a local swim
instructor accused of inappropriately touching a child and have our doubts and
if Fairfax County cop NICOLE CHRISTIAN is involved, than the police should drop
all charges immediately because we have seen the results of her work. NICOLE
CHRISTIAN is the cop who worked on the case the Sean Lanigan case.
Here’s a summary of what the Fairfax County Police did to
Lanigan….and they got away with by the way.
Falsely
Accused, Sean Lanigan Attempts to Reclaim His Life
By CHRISTINA CARON
After being exonerated of molestation charges last year, Virginia
teacher Sean Lanigan said he felt "like someone lifted an elephant right
off my back."
The courtroom erupted in cheers, and several people began to cry,
including himself.
"I don't cry very often and I can say I shed a few tears in
that moment when I was able to embrace my life," said Lanigan. "I
thought, 'Ok, finally some justice was done, and I'm gonna get my life
back.'"
But what seemed like the end was only another beginning.
Nearly a year after he was acquitted, the 43-year-old physical
education teacher is still struggling to reclaim his reputation and repay 90
percent of his legal bills, especially now that he no longer has a fulltime
job.
Last spring, Lanigan was in a different frame of mind, trying to
find a way to explain to his children what he was going through.
In 2010, a 12-year-old female student falsely accused Lanigan of
allegedly trying to lay on top of her in an equipment room.
One of Lanigan's three children is the same age as his accuser,
and another is a year younger.
"If you had asked me last May would I be standing in my shoes
right now, still stressed out, seeing a therapist, worried about the situation,
I would have said you're crazy," said Lanigan, who lives in Centreville,
Va.
'I'm Going to Make Him Pay'
Prior to being charged with two felonies, Lanigan had a sterling
reputation at Centre Ridge Elementary School, where he worked for 13 years
teaching elementary school P.E. He also coached a high school boys' soccer team
and various club teams in the area.
Then in December 2009, after giving a verbal warning to a
12-year-old girl after she misbehaved on a school bus, the girl reportedly told
her friends, "Mr. Lanigan's a jerk," according to court records
reported by The Washington Post.
Then she said, "I'm going to make him pay."
The girl had been part of the Centre Ridge safety patrol team, a
group of about 80 fifth and sixth graders whose job it is to make sure the
other kids on the school bus are behaving.
As head of the safety patrols, Lanigan received an email from a
worried parent saying the girl was bullying kids and using inappropriate
language. Lanigan warned the girl that her behavior was inappropriate.
Ten days later he says the girl's behavior continued, and another
teacher spoke to her.
Then, in mid-January, the girl and a friend of hers began telling
people that Lanigan had tried to lay on top of her in the equipment room, on a
stack of blue tumbling mats, saying he would "treat her like a
queen."
The friend claimed to have witnessed the whole thing.
The accuser's name is not being used by the media because she is a
minor.
Soon, Lanigan would face 40 years in prison.
After the school principal found out about the accusations, the
police were called in.
And on Jan. 20 of last year Lanigan was pulled out of class,
brought to the principal's office and subsequently interrogated for two hours.
For the first half hour, however, he wasn't even aware as to why he was there.
"Half hour into it [detective] Nicole Christian said,
'You have no idea why you're here do you?'" Lanigan recalled. "I said
'No I don't. Please explain to me. What is going on here?'"
That's when he says they told him what he was being accused of.
He says the conversation ended when they asked him to take a
polygraph test at which point he said he would willingly take one, but he also
wanted to see a lawyer.
"They said if I didn't do anything I shouldn't need to talk
to a lawyer," he said.
Shortly afterward, they took his keys and his school badge.
On Jan. 29, he was charged with abduction and aggravated sexual
battery and he went to jail where he stayed for four days until he was released
on $50,000 bail.
When Lanigan was in jail, police released his booking photograph,
age and home address.
"It is usual protocol, but was it necessary?" asked Bill
Cummings, a close friend of Lanigan's who has known him for 14 years.
That's the question that many are asking now that Lanigan's name
and image has been tarnished.
"I'm doing whatever I can to help him with this intolerable
situation. It's disgraceful how he's been treated by Fairfax county
schools," Cummings said.
The first few weeks Lanigan was out of jail the community showered
him and his family with support -- they brought over dinners, gift cards and
even volunteered to watch the kids so he and his wife could have a date night.
Lanigan was well-known in his housing development, a community
called Virginia Run.
For several years he dressed up as Santa Claus during the
holidays, and showed up at the community center on a flatbed driven by draft
horses.
Neighbors would stuff pillows in his Santa suit to camouflage his
fit physique. He even played the roles of Great Pumpkin and Easter bunny.
When people heard about the charges against him, they began
writing and calling Fairfax, Va. state delegate Tim Hugo.
"I had mothers calling me who said, 'We trust this
guy,'" Hugo said, who was amazed at the community's passionate response.
"There's not a person who has a bad thing to say."
So many people contacted Hugo that he, in turn, contacted the
Fairfax County School District, but he says they told him it was an internal
matter and they would not discuss it.
"I think what they've done to Sean Lanigan is
unconscionable," said Hugo, who worries other male teachers in the school
district feel wary, even paranoid. "The guy's been railroaded."
The school district is currently embroiled in another controversy
regarding the closure of Clifton Elementary School.
A Clifton resident recently accused the school board of using
email to secretly ask one another whether or not they would vote to close the
elementary school, allegedly violating the state's Open Meetings laws.
"Fairfax can never admit they're wrong," Hugo said.
Paul Regnier, the Fairfax schools spokesman, did not respond to an
interview request made Monday by ABCNews.com.
The school did, however, issue a statement to The Washington Post
on Monday evening. They said the decision to transfer Lanigan to another school
was standard practice in "any case involving a serious disciplinary
proceeding," and he could "seek reimbursement of his legal fees from
his teachers association."
Regnier didn't give any specifics about that reimbursement other
than to say the teachers association insures members for up to $35,000.
During the probable cause hearing, the accuser actually admitted that
Lanigan never actually laid on top of her. But the case still went to a grand
jury.
"Nobody wanted to be attached to dismissing a charge against
someone who was alleged to have molested a child," said Cummings.
The accuser reportedly said during the trial that she had always
hated Lanigan, according to The Post. She also admitted to a Facebook posting
where she called it all "a joke."
Although Lanigan's trial lasted only four days in May and the
jury only deliberated for about 10 minutes before deciding he wasn't guilty,
Lanigan wasn't allowed to return to Centre Ridge.
Instead, he was transferred to South Lakes High School in Reston,
Va., where he was paid a fulltime salary to work five days out of 10.
The decision to go to South Lakes wasn't his, he said, it was a
"take it or leave it" situation.
As the months passed, he put up a strong front for himself, and
his family.
"I don't talk very often -- I don't chat, I have thick
skin," he explained. "There's a lot of people who don't realize how
emotionally torn up I've been."
After the trial, "Everyone I talked to said 'I'm so happy
your life is back to normal.' My life is not normal."
One of the first Google search results under Lanigan's name pulls
up the website badbadteacher.com.
Lanigan says kids still run up to him, saying they miss him.
"Sometimes it brings me to tears," he said.
Then, to his dismay, in March the school district notified Lanigan
they would only pay for $60,000 of his legal fees -- he incurred more than
$120,000.
And last month, he was destaffed from South Lakes -- a decision
based on seniority and enrollment numbers.
The school simply didn't have the enrollment to staff nine P.E.
teachers.
His wife Karin is working part-time in order to help take care of
their children who range in ages from 8 to 14. She left her fulltime position
when Lanigan was transferred to Reston.
Despite all of these hardships, the Lanigan family doesn't plan on
leaving the area -- both Lanigan and his wife were born and raised in Northern
Virginia and their parents are still there too.
Uprooting, he says, would be a major disruption.
Until The Washington Post's Saturday article highlighting
Lanigan's present-day difficulties, several families in their housing
development had assumed the Lanigan family was doing O.K.
But Beth Tweddle, 50, a neighbor who has known the Lanigans for
more than 10 years, said his inner circle knew better.
The pain of being falsely accused hadn't diminished: she watched
as Lanigan lost weight, his trademark "booming" laugh fading away.
"After the exoneration we heard that laugh again,"
said Tweddle. "It was so great a year ago for it to come back again. But
it's been diminished."
When asked if he would consider suing the accuser's family,
Lanigan said, "I just don't know."
Right now, he says, his focus is on trying to get his money back
and securing a job.
The Lanigan family has taken out loans to make ends meet, so
they've set up a fund to help pay off the legal bills.
Lanigan is also picking up work as a soccer trainer at a soccer
club.
"Hopefully," Tweddle said, "Sean's laugh will be
back soon."
For now, Lanigan and his wife are staying strong. They celebrated
their 16th anniversary last Friday, and Lanigan says they're closer than ever:
"one strong, unified mind."
"We've always taught our kids right and wrong, and … there
are people out there that are trying to make this thing right," he said.
Hey Sharon, now you can't say you didn't know
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.
Fairfax County Police Watch: $462 photograph
Fairfax County Police Watch: $462 photograph: Lets see, twelve government workers posing for a photo no one wants, except them, at an average yearly cost to the taxpayers of $80,000 X...
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