Fairfax County is 391 square miles, and has only four co-responder program teams to cover the entire area, and they do not work 24/7. The program will be expanding.

Several Fairfax neighbors gathered on Friday in what they called a "celebration" of obtaining enough signatures to put Mayor Lisel Blash and Vice Mayor Stephanie Hellman on the recall ballot.

According to Virginia's standard, a police department should have 29 percent of its officers trained in CIT. “In Fairfax County, we have 59 percent of our sworn police officers who are CIT ...