Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Arlington Police Chief Doug Scott: Residents, civic associations 'worried' about potential cuts.
Arlington's community policing roster could grow shorter if the county board accepts certain reductions in the proposed $1.1 billion budget currently being hashed out. Doing so would mean fewer officers available to attend community, civic and business events, fewer available to give safety presentations and fewer to focus on quality of life issues of a single community, according to a departmental email. Police Chief Doug Scott told Patch on Tuesday that he's begun to hear from residents and civic associations about the matter. "So far, they're worried about it," Scott said. "They realize that in many ways they are connected to the police department through our district teams. And they're apprehensive of changing that model." Community …
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Police Chief Doug Scott: No ties to terror organizations found so far.
The lunch rush crowd at Ballston Common Mall — and Arlington County in general — was "really, really lucky" last week that a Molotov cocktail thrown into the mall's food court failed to explode, Police Chief Doug Scott said Tuesday. Scott, reporting to the Arlington County Board, told elected officials that the crude incendiary device — which has been described as a brown glass bottle that contained a flammable liquid and a cluster of matches — had a lit fuse when it was thrown from an upper level of the mall Thursday. The bottle hit the inside of the building as it fell toward the food court, knocking the lit fuse out of it, Scott said. "Had the lit fuse made it all the way down, we would have almost certainly had a fire," he said. The …
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Scott: Any 'hint' of quota system damages department's reputation.
Arlington Police Chief Doug Scott on Tuesday rescinded a March 1 memo that listed specific numbers of arrests, citations and parking tickets officers were expected to make or else face disciplinary action. Scott said the memo "created confusion" among residents and officers about whether the Arlington department had a quota system. He called the memo, which he said he first saw Monday, "a mistake," and said his officers were "embarrassed" that the story had gotten so much attention. "There is no month-to-month or day-to-day numeric quota system for our officers. And I want to be emphatic about that," Scott said. "I do feel that most employers have performance expectations for their employees. I would expect that your producers have …
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Last reported homicide was March 14, 2010.
Arlington County has gone two consecutive years without a homicide for the first time since the police department was formed in 1940, according to a news release. “Reaching this mark is only possible through a combination of effective policing, excellent medical care, successful prosecution and cooperating communities; all of which we have experienced in Arlington County the past two years,” Arlington Police Chief Doug Scott said in a statement. The last homicide in Arlington County happened on March 14, 2010. That night, 20-year-old Cain Guevara-Estrada of Arlington was found on the sidewalk in the 2800 block of North Pershing Drive, according to a Washington Post account at the time. The victim suffered stab wounds to his upper body, …
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Friday, February 3, 2012
President unveiled proposals at Arlington Fire Station No. 5.
Jacob Johnson joined the Marine Corps on Sept. 11, 2000 – exactly one year before the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. He served two tours in Iraq – combined, 13 months overseas – and considers himself fortunate to have been hired by the Arlington County Fire Department in 2005. “Transitioning out of the Marine Corps was one of the most difficult challenges in my life,” Johnson, now a lieutenant in the department, told a crowd of about 150 people Friday in Arlington Fire Station No. 5. The crowd consisted largely of veterans who now work as area police officers, firefighters or with the National Park Service, plus a few local dignitaries. That building, on South Hayes Street near the Pentagon City and Crystal City Metro …
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Recent car-bike collisions a sign 'something has to happen.'
“Whoa! Whoa! Right there!” A car was turning right onto Lynn Street from the I-66 off-ramp at Lee Highway. It almost hit a man on a bicycle. “We almost had a demonstration!” And so began a gathering of about 40 cycling enthusiasts and various Arlington County officials, including Police Chief Doug Scott, Monday night on the corner of Lee Highway and Lynn Street – perhaps the most dangerous intersection in Rosslyn. For more than an hour, the county’s volunteer Bicycle Advisory Committee heard plans and promises for bettering the intersection. They asked questions, made suggestions and waded through the finer points of Virginia law. And every so often, someone would point toward the northeast corner of the intersection at a cyclist narrowly …
John Glanton
5:58 pm on Friday, October 26, 2012
My money is on the Hating Breitbart film opening as his motivation. more ›