Fairfax County police officer cases overturned for planting drugs during traffic stops

[Anonymous]

Jonathan Freitag has been found to have planted drugs in the cars of traffic stop victims in Fairfax cases.

His crimes include potential plants in the car of a D.C. firefighter sent to jail on those drug charges in 2018.

Court records show Freitag found a handgun, marijuana and a bag with more than 450 tablets of oxycodone in the glove compartment.

[Anonymous]

He also left the DMV and immediately got a job in FL - no questions asked. This is why we need a national database of police infractions.

“The officer involved has a long history of improper and unjust stops with a racially disparate impact,” Descano told WTOP.

Descano said Freitag admitted to a third party that he was targeting Black people in the stops, the Post reported. Freitag has denied the allegations of racism.
...
Freitag resigned from the Fairfax County Police Department in May 2020. He was hired in August 2020 by the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office in Florida, but canned two weeks ago, according to the Post.

[Anonymous]

Dude is only 25. Holy sh#t. And he’s already got 400 convictions under his belt?

Wtf. This kid has been pulling this crap as soon as he joined the force. He didn’t learn it on his own. This might end up taking down a whole swath of the Fairfax County police.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He also left the DMV and immediately got a job in FL - no questions asked. This is why we need a national database of police infractions.

“The officer involved has a long history of improper and unjust stops with a racially disparate impact,” Descano told WTOP.

Descano said Freitag admitted to a third party that he was targeting Black people in the stops, the Post reported. Freitag has denied the allegations of racism.
...
Freitag resigned from the Fairfax County Police Department in May 2020. He was hired in August 2020 by the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office in Florida, but canned two weeks ago, according to the Post.

Yes. Please!

[Anonymous]

This is why the police need to be abolished.

Not retrained. Not reimagined. Not defunded.

ABOLISHED.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is why the police need to be abolished.

Not retrained. Not reimagined. Not defunded.

ABOLISHED.

In your neighborhood...then that's fine. Not mine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is why the police need to be abolished.

Not retrained. Not reimagined. Not defunded.

ABOLISHED.

Oh, that would work out so, so well. /s

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He also left the DMV and immediately got a job in FL - no questions asked. This is why we need a national database of police infractions.

“The officer involved has a long history of improper and unjust stops with a racially disparate impact,” Descano told WTOP.

Descano said Freitag admitted to a third party that he was targeting Black people in the stops, the Post reported. Freitag has denied the allegations of racism.
...
Freitag resigned from the Fairfax County Police Department in May 2020. He was hired in August 2020 by the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office in Florida, but canned two weeks ago, according to the Post.

Agreed. It's one of the most effective things to do to stop bad cops jumping from job to job. Large departments can do the background investigations. Smaller ones often have trouble. A national database of sustained charges would be helpful to all departments. And every major police organization backs this approach.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is why the police need to be abolished.

Not retrained. Not reimagined. Not defunded.

ABOLISHED.

There are as many racially disparate deaths and outcomes in medicine and we aren't calling for the abolition of doctors and nurses.

Abolishing anything is an emotional reaction with no basis in reality. Just because you aren't bright enough to do the hard work of making systems better doesn't mean others can't. Step back and let us do our work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is why the police need to be abolished.

Not retrained. Not reimagined. Not defunded.

ABOLISHED.

We need a reformation. But seriously, you were just bashed in the head by a mugger, who do you call?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is why the police need to be abolished.

Not retrained. Not reimagined. Not defunded.

ABOLISHED.

We need a reformation. But seriously, you were just bashed in the head by a mugger, who do you call?

PP would likely call the antifa "medics." Because in order to hold this view, you have to be part of a radical left-wing organization.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is why the police need to be abolished.

Not retrained. Not reimagined. Not defunded.

ABOLISHED.

We need a reformation. But seriously, you were just bashed in the head by a mugger, who do you call?

NP: For me, that has been a terrifying decision: knowing that both my best option for getting help also has a very high risk of putting me in even more danger — in ways that I will absolutely unable to control.

I say this as someone who has worked directly with police officers in community oriented programs. I have had LEO friends and even a family member. But I also have had some frightening encounters with LEO. So, yeah, I would call the police, but I would do so knowing that I could be inviting someone way more terrifying into my life than the mugger who, at least in your example, didn’t shoot to kill.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is why the police need to be abolished.

Not retrained. Not reimagined. Not defunded.

ABOLISHED.

We need a reformation. But seriously, you were just bashed in the head by a mugger, who do you call?

NP: For me, that has been a terrifying decision: knowing that both my best option for getting help also has a very high risk of putting me in even more danger — in ways that I will absolutely unable to control.

I say this as someone who has worked directly with police officers in community oriented programs. I have had LEO friends and even a family member. But I also have had some frightening encounters with LEO. So, yeah, I would call the police, but I would do so knowing that I could be inviting someone way more terrifying into my life than the mugger who, at least in your example, didn’t shoot to kill.

You know that you have much higher risk of being killed by someone other than a police officer, right? For a Black man, the lifetime risk is 1 in 1,000. 0.1% That's double the risk to all men, which is 0.05%, and that needs to be addressed. We absolutely have to make policing safer. But I worry that we have skewed the public perception of just how risky an encounter with a police officer really is. People are changing policy based on emotion and not data.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He also left the DMV and immediately got a job in FL - no questions asked. This is why we need a national database of police infractions.

“The officer involved has a long history of improper and unjust stops with a racially disparate impact,” Descano told WTOP.

Descano said Freitag admitted to a third party that he was targeting Black people in the stops, the Post reported. Freitag has denied the allegations of racism.
...
Freitag resigned from the Fairfax County Police Department in May 2020. He was hired in August 2020 by the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office in Florida, but canned two weeks ago, according to the Post.

Agreed. It's one of the most effective things to do to stop bad cops jumping from job to job. Large departments can do the background investigations. Smaller ones often have trouble. A national database of sustained charges would be helpful to all departments. And every major police organization backs this approach.

Wasn't Chauvin a job-jumper? I seem to recall he was, and had prior complaints in his previous posts.

[Anonymous]

Dude is accused of stealing drugs from the police property room, planting drugs on innocent people and stopping motorists without legal basis.

Question:
What officers in the police property room cooperated or were not doing their job properly and need to be charged as well?