On
April 10, 1990, ten members of the police department's "jump-out
team" including two supervisors, came to work at midnight armed and
dressed in the team's full uniform of dark military-type fatigues, drove
together to a Leesburg apartment building, outside the jurisdiction of the
department, to deliver a "strong message" to a man who had threatened
the wife of a cop. Believe it or not,
the Fairfax police spokesman Warren Carmichael said that no laws were broken
and, he added, no force was used by the officers that night. The Board of supervisors said and did
nothing.