New Fairfax Police Chief facing scrutiny over past incidents of excessive force
By Sierra Fox
New Fairfax County police chief already under fire
Fairfax County Police Chief Kevin Davis has only been on the job for a week – but he’s already facing heavy criticism about his past.
FAIRFAX, Va. - Fairfax County’s new police chief is wrapping up his first week on the job and is already under fire. Some in the community are raising concerns over his questionable past as an officer.
As a young officer in Prince George’s County, Davis was accused in two separate lawsuits of slamming a black driver into the pavement during a traffic stop in 1993 and illegally detaining a 19-year-old in 1999.
April 28, 2021 at 3:30pm
Fairfax County Board of Supervisors Chairman Jeff McKay remains confident in the board’s choice of former Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Davis as the county’s next police chief, despite reports that he previously faced lawsuits over use-of-force incidents.
With Davis set to assume his new position on Monday (May 3), McKay told Reston Now in a statement that he continues to support the new police chief.
“The history of policing has not centered around the safety of all members of the community. That is a systemic problem we are always working on in Fairfax County,” McKay wrote. “After an extensive interview and outreach process, the entire Board felt confident in Chief Davis’s ability to lead and further reforms to policing. We look forward to everyone in the community engaging with the new Police Chief and engaging in their own conversations with him.”
Cops within the department blame low wages for the mass exodus.
04/28/21 – Underpaid and underappreciated, cops in Fairfax County, Virginia, are asking, Why would people want to do this job?
Fairfax County Police Department is down 188 officers, according to Sean Corcoran, president of the Fairfax County Coalition of Police. Officers eligible for retirement are leaving, others are getting out to join higher paying federal agencies like the Capitol Police. The numbers are horrific, says Corcoran.
According to the Fairfax County Fraternal Order of Police, the average starting salary for a Fairfax County cop is $52,000. The median household income in the county was $124,831 in 2019.
Baltimore Dec 4, 2019
More than two dozen correctional officers in Baltimore were charged Tuesday with using excessive force on prisoners at state-operated jails in a city plagued by decades of institutional corruption, inside and outside jailhouse walls. The 25 indicted officers are accused of assaulting and threatening detainees at correctional facilities, tampering with evidence and falsifying documents, said Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn…
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