Crime & Safety
FCPD Shares Decade of Data on Officer-Involved Shootings
The Reston district was found to have the fewest officer-involved shootings since 2005, while the McLean district was tied for second-most.
After Fairfax County Police were found to have withheld information in the case of John Geer, an unarmed man shot and killed by an officer in a 2013 standoff, the department is seeking to be more transparent in the community.
With this in mind, it released a decade’s worth of data on officer-involved shootings on Tuesday evening, detailing all 37 across its police districts.
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Refer to the chart above for the breakdown of shootings by year and by district. The majority of shootings (23 of 37) occurred in the four-year span from 2005-08, while only 14 shootings have occurred since the start of 2009.
The Reston Police District was found to be the most tame when it comes to officer-involved shootings, claiming just one in the last 10 years.
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McLean has played host to seven shootings, but none since 2010 and never more than two in any given year. Still, those seven shootings constitute the second-most in any one district, trailing only Franconia (8).
For more details on specific officer-involved shootings, click here.
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