Jeff Roorda was a Democratic member of the Missouri House of Representatives, serving from 2005 to 2010 and again from 2013 to 2015.
17 Facts About Jeff Roorda
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Jeff Roorda was born in St Louis, Missouri on March 30,1965, the oldest of two sons.
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Jeff Roorda lived in St Louis with his parents and younger brother until he was twelve years old when Roorda's family moved to Arnold, a St Louis suburb in Jefferson County, Missouri.
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Jeff Roorda was a police officer in Arnold, Missouri until 2001, when he was fired for making allegedly false statements and filing false reports.
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Jeff Roorda is the executive director and a business manager of the St Louis Police Officers Association.
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Jeff Roorda was elected to the Missouri House of Representatives in 2004 as a Democrat in district 102, representing the Imperial, Missouri area.
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In 2016, Roorda set his sights on the race for Jefferson County Council district 4, representing the Barnhart area.
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In March 2010, Jeff Roorda got in a heated exchange on the House floor with Republican Rep.
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In 2022, Jeff Roorda has filed to run again for state senate district 22, but this time he has filed to run as a Republican.
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Jeff Roorda said the St Louis Police Officers Association has had concerns about dashboard cameras in use on many city patrol cars and would have the same worries about on-body devices.
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Jeff Roorda said both types of cameras provide video of "one angle of an encounter" that sometimes doesn't reflect exactly what happened.
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In January 2015, Jeff Roorda, wearing an "I am Darren Wilson" bracelet, was involved in a fracas at a meeting of the Board of Aldermen of the City of St Louis when he had a run-in with a woman as he was approaching and arguing with the aldermen.
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The woman who Jeff Roorda allegedly assaulted in 2015 in December 2016 filed a lawsuit against him and in February 2017 the SLPOA was added to the suit.
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Jeff Roorda has helped with the fundraising for Darren Wilson, the Ferguson police officer who was under investigation for the controversial killing of Michael Brown, and Jeff Roorda repeatedly publicly defended Wilson.
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Jeff Roorda made numerous appearances on CNN and other news networks, in interviews and on panels, after the Brown shooting to defend police and criticize protesters, often making controversial statements.
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Jeff Roorda has written two books: Ferghanistan: The War on Police of which a "generous" portion of the profits was promised to Wilson, and The War on Police: How the Ferguson Effect Is Making America Unsafe.
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Jeff Roorda demanded an apology from the NFL following a public display of protest by several members of the St Louis Rams.