The Problem With Loudoun's Sheriff's Department Is The Problem With America

This past Saturday morning, May 12, about 12:30-1:00 am, there was an incident right in front of my house which brought two deputies and their vehicles.

My neighbor across the street had called the Sheriff's dept. because a man and woman in a car backed out of the driveway of the house next to his, drove about 70 feet down the street, then parked about 5 feet off the curb and turned off the car.

They had the windows opened and were making a great deal of noise.

When the deputies arrived, I was watching from inside my front window about 35 feet from the car. I watched as the officer was handed about four beer cans which he set on the roof. The young lady got out of the car and was apparently sent back to the house. The young man was sat down on the street for awhile next to the car.

I walked over to my neighbor's house where he was talking with one of the officers, and my neighbor explained why he called the police. Apparently the couple were drinking and having sex when the officers arrived. Two other neighbors who had been watching from their houses came out and joined us.

Eventually as we watched the officers escorted the young man back to the house. Then the officer returned accompanied by another man from the house; both the officer and the man were talking and laughing. The man got in the car and pulled it in closer the curb and parked it, then the officers left.
My question is the one my neighbor asked: If that was you or I we would be on our way to jail right now. Why were these two let off in such a carefree manner that it was basically considered a joke?

We know that the couple in the car appeared not to speak English and the house they pulled out of is being turned into a boarding house because we have seen a second kitchen being put in and rooms being subdivided. Here is what my neighbors and I think: Likely they are not citizens, and the Sheriff's dept. is inclined to look the other way in such cases.

These people had parked in the middle of a neighborhood street and they had open containers in the car. That, by anyone's standards, would be considered drinking and driving. I have heard Sheriff Simpson go on - just about a week ago in fact - about how Loudoun County is one place you do not want to be if you are drinking and driving.

I believe the Sheriff - I believe if that had been me in that car I would have been detained overnight and would be looking at some serious legal action.

But these two were not detained, and although they were obviously intoxicated they were simply sent home and the car was left there. Who could say they would not have come out an hour later and driven away?

I would really like an answer on this because it seems to be a vignette of everything that is wrong with Loudoun County.

Several days later, my neighbor told me one of the deputies on the scene had said "We have better things to do." Evidently, this includes Loudoun Sheriff's deputies going "out in force buckling down on those who are not buckled up" and helping with weeding and mulching at local parks.

I'm no legal expert, but when an officer pulls numerous tall boy cans out of a vehicle, which is parked with lights out in the middle of a suburban street, and the two occupants in the vehicle are having sex and making a public disturbance after midnight, the incident would likely entail at minimum four violations. Certainly, driving under the influence would be at the top of the list in a county which promotes itself as "very aggressive" prosecuting that particular crime.

My neighbor also told me that the car was gone before dawn.

It is not unreasonable to assume that the two occupants of the vehicle watched the deputies drive away at 2:00 am, waited a while, then got back in the car and drove off.

This is what passes for "justice" in Loudoun County. This is why citizens of this country say, "What about us?"

What about the fact we have young kids now living next to a boarding house? What about the flow of transients into what once was a neighborhood of single family homes? What about public safety officials who have a separate set of rules for non-citizens and cast a blind eye on overt violations by illegal aliens in our communities? What about longtime residents who no longer feel safe because local law enforcement looks the other way and says "why don't you move?"

And what about the deaths of Virginia citizens like 53-year-old Joseph Passarelli on Nov. 20 in Herndon and Allison E. Kuhnhardt, 17, and Tessa C. Tranchant, 16 on March 30 in Virginia Beach? The illegal alien drunk drivers who killed these three residents of our state had numerous previous violations and were let go by local law enforcement agencies which all presumably had "better things to do" than enforce the law equally on citizens and non-citizens.

What about a Sheriff who, despite all the furor about local problems caused by illegal aliens, still runs a department maintaining a policy of indifference? What about a state senator from Virginia Beach who presided over the quashing of multiple bills designed to improve public safety through better immigration enforcement at the state and local levels?

There is a malignancy in America, a dereliction of duty by our elected officials: from law enforcement to state representatives to national representatives to the highest office in the land. Citizens have a right to feel skeptical, that "the fix is in," that their elected officials are working against them. The concepts of "fairness" and the moral high ground have been hijacked by propagandists who cut regular citizens out of the equation.

If you are an elderly American, a blue collar worker, a family with young kids, or simply a citizen who has played by the rules and broken no laws, you go to the back of the line. Powerful business interests and their acolytes in public office have decided that cheap labor trumps all. The deck is indeed stacked against American citizens and all of those who have tried to immigrate to our country lawfully.

Some observers, such as the Post's E.J. Dionne, say it's all about the Hispanic votes.

No, it's not. It's also about the American people. Democrats, who used to stand up for American workers, have largely abandoned them. Republicans of the country club set have never been with them. What's left are part of the Republican base sympathetic with citizens and a miniscule number of principled "liberal" Democrats. The majority of our elected officials are either part of the problem, viewing the influx of illegal aliens as an opportunity to "elect" a new group of voters, or simply going along to get along.

What is to be done? If we do not approve of our elected officials, we get to fire them, from the bottom to the top. That is the first step required to take our country back one community at a time.