cops making themselves souvenirs again

haven’t seen any challenge coins yet but it’s a matter of time

well ‘time’ was about ten minutes. the O and T in ‘rioters’ are highlighted to signify overtime

Remember when Atlanta cops just decided to not come into work? They do

cool skull, long beach

sherf

the gas mask skull makes a reappearance. LASD seem to have the most varieties of these

imagine getting an empty plastic bottle thrown over your head and immediately making a ‘veteran’ patch

hey but someone in the NYPD went to art school. this is easily the nicest piece of police brutality I’ve seen, aesthetically

all cops do is complain

so many small variations of this one terrible design

oh yeah that’s absolutely the case - it is perhaps worth emphasising that this is not at all a new phenomenon https://twitter.com/justaphil/status/1298029195076001792

case in point: the challenge coins NYPD officers made during/after Occupy Wall Street

I’ve never seen it happen - part of the point of ‘morale’ patches like these is that they’re meant to be officially deniable - if we find out about them, the department can just say, truthfully, ‘we didn’t authorise that’ https://twitter.com/blvckrichter/status/1298077658903793665

of course that doesn’t change the fact that someone’s making them and presumably someone’s buying them. they’re memorabilia, destined for desks or office walls and so forth. cops might carry a challenge coin on them but even those are more for collecting than anything else

I mean things get a little fuzzier depending on what cops think they can get away with. Tactical units, for instance, are more likely to wear them because they’re less likely to get in trouble over it - for instance this Kansas City, MO SWAT officer with a ‘doorkicker’ patch

usually these tend to be comparatively subdued - thin blue line and punisher motifs, ‘1*’ (one ass to risk), and so on, rather than the open contempt you see upthread. not always, though, like the Florida SWAT officer who met Mike Pence with a QAnon patch on his plate carrier

in general the less noticeable the thing, the more likely it is to have been individualised this way - racial slurs and swastikas etched into flashlights aren’t unheard of

also if you remember Daniel Shaver, the guy the police executed for losing a game of Simon Says in a hotel hallway, the cop who killed him had a custom dust cover on his rifle with ‘you’re fucked’ engraved on it. acquitted, obviously