Another Americanism imported from that god-awful failed country.
“The grey union flag badge, with a thin blue line running through it, is produced by the Care of Police Survivors charity and sold to raise money for the families of police officers who died in the line of duty.”
A true hero.
Take note, *this* is how you motivate a workforce, other CC’s
This is another downside of bizarre, far right american cultural jingoism that is infecting our country.
The sentiment behind it is laudable, but the connotations of that symbol are what they are. It sucks but perhaps the charity should reconsider what design they use.
why not allow police to use a fascist make over of the union jack?
what could possibly go wrong?
Good. The charity does a lot of good work with those injured or killed for their families.
Might as well wear a shirt saying “I’ve been traumatised at work and all I got was this lousy shirt!”
How the bloody hell does a rather washed-out badge sufficiently respect and honour the dead?
– It seems such a poor mark of respect and smacks of self-pretentious symbolism. Conveniently sidestepping any real action.
__Stop talking volumes about glorifying the dead: make it easier to stay living instead.__
The UK is _not_ the USA and such badges are not new. They have been around for many years now and they had none of the political connotations associated with the American version in recent years.
The UK versions absolutely should not be associated with the right wing political groups and ideologies that have misappropriated the US version.
Whether the central stripe was blue for Police, red for Fire and Rescue or green for the NHS Ambulance Services, these were simply a sign of support for the emergency services and, in particular, for those lost in the line of duty.
Yeah, they got politicised really quickly in the states and for me became a symbol of brutality/self victim-hood.
Spare me the ‘but this is British’ like our institution isn’t rotten to the core.
‘The Thin Blue Line’ intended meaning, from 1920s, was to signify the barrier between law and order and social and civil anarchy.
It’s only since 2014 that the symbol has come to mean something else, for those outside of Policing.
Why is there no such outcry for all the other “Thin Line” badges??
Green?
Red?
Orange?
Yellow?
Blue, Green and Red?
All the people ITT complaining about “Americanisms” and “Americanist far right jingoisms” forget that the US is at least not ruled by literal birth bloodlines of elite quasi families that all go to the same schools and know each other for generations who own all the housing – the most profitable investment in the UK – and also make regulations for said housing.
The US is far ahead. Biden doesn’t go on massive transphobic rants. The UK’s defining cultural trait is conservatism and tradition and that includes brutal and militarized police who very openly protects the noble gentlemen from the plebs even if this was what the blue line stood for here.
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Another Americanism imported from that god-awful failed country.
“The grey union flag badge, with a thin blue line running through it, is produced by the Care of Police Survivors charity and sold to raise money for the families of police officers who died in the line of duty.”
A true hero.
Take note, *this* is how you motivate a workforce, other CC’s
This is another downside of bizarre, far right american cultural jingoism that is infecting our country.
The sentiment behind it is laudable, but the connotations of that symbol are what they are. It sucks but perhaps the charity should reconsider what design they use.
why not allow police to use a fascist make over of the union jack?
what could possibly go wrong?
Good. The charity does a lot of good work with those injured or killed for their families.
Might as well wear a shirt saying “I’ve been traumatised at work and all I got was this lousy shirt!”
How the bloody hell does a rather washed-out badge sufficiently respect and honour the dead?
– It seems such a poor mark of respect and smacks of self-pretentious symbolism. Conveniently sidestepping any real action.
__Stop talking volumes about glorifying the dead: make it easier to stay living instead.__
The UK is _not_ the USA and such badges are not new. They have been around for many years now and they had none of the political connotations associated with the American version in recent years.
The UK versions absolutely should not be associated with the right wing political groups and ideologies that have misappropriated the US version.
Whether the central stripe was blue for Police, red for Fire and Rescue or green for the NHS Ambulance Services, these were simply a sign of support for the emergency services and, in particular, for those lost in the line of duty.
Yeah, they got politicised really quickly in the states and for me became a symbol of brutality/self victim-hood.
Spare me the ‘but this is British’ like our institution isn’t rotten to the core.
‘The Thin Blue Line’ intended meaning, from 1920s, was to signify the barrier between law and order and social and civil anarchy.
It’s only since 2014 that the symbol has come to mean something else, for those outside of Policing.
Why is there no such outcry for all the other “Thin Line” badges??
Green?
Red?
Orange?
Yellow?
Blue, Green and Red?
All the people ITT complaining about “Americanisms” and “Americanist far right jingoisms” forget that the US is at least not ruled by literal birth bloodlines of elite quasi families that all go to the same schools and know each other for generations who own all the housing – the most profitable investment in the UK – and also make regulations for said housing.
The US is far ahead. Biden doesn’t go on massive transphobic rants. The UK’s defining cultural trait is conservatism and tradition and that includes brutal and militarized police who very openly protects the noble gentlemen from the plebs even if this was what the blue line stood for here.