Posted: 9/22/2007 3:57:26 AM EDT
| In my area of patrol I am seeing more and more thugs with them on their vehicles. I was just wondering if anyone else has been seeing this on their beat? Most of the Officers from my shift have taken it off their POV. |
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Kinda like those license plate rings with LAPDs radil call sign on them years ago. For a while it was a good sublte thing, then everyone got them. NYC Traffic agents(before they were NYPD Traffic agents) used to leave a M&Ms wrapper on their dash over the VIN to let the other brownies know they shouldn't write them a ticket. I'm sure the 1* is used up too? |
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I dunno about the blue line stickers... but the "in" thing around here is to get used (abused) CVPI's and put dubs on them. It looks really weird riding behind a white crown vic with tinted windows and "INTERCEPTOR" on the back trunk, yet seeing it with spinners. BLECH  Oh, and what's up with the cars painted like candy bars? |
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Never had one on my pov. I don't pay attention to them either. If you stop a car with one, they got it from their cousins' wife, whose brother knew a police officer. I stopped a vehicle the other day with one. Guy had a criminal record 12 feet long. I asked him where he got the sticker, and he said "I bought the car from a cop, and he didn't take it off.". There are plenty of people who dislike police officers.......I Don't need my pov keyed at Wal-Mart. No need to advertise. |
| Never noticed a mope with a thin blue line plate on their pov, but we do see a lot of active FOP tags on their vehicles or state police booster stickers. I guess they feel we won't stop them if we see a FOP tag on their plates. Having any of the above on your veh is asking for them to get stolen or an invitation to have your veh vandalized. |
I hate the "Sick Vics" ETA quite a few of the guys in my Dept still use blue line stickers, though twice in the last few weeks i've seen them on vehicles owned by people who weren't LE |
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Wow, I thought I was the only one who remembered that! (Of course, for the PD, an M&M wrapper was a "Must Summons" situation!  ) Heck, these days, a lot of folks don't even know where the name "Brownies" comes from.Uh... are we old? In any case, I never had anything on my car that would let others know I was on the job. I was willing to take my chances with DOT, just to keep my windshield intact. |
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If I was a narco terrorist I would love to set up something like that where I could get thousands of officers to give me their badge numbers/dept letterhead and home addresses all for a sticker, or I would sure like to get a lacky employed as an IT guy for the TBL sticker shop PERSEC anybody  ETA: AND PAY ME TO DO SO |
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I was just visiting a neighboring jurisdiction and parked in the back lot where all the officers park their POV's. Every friggin POV had "blue line" stickers and some with both and FOP plate and sticker. This after it is widely known that Hucks are targeting police officers POV's and even marked and unmarked cruisers for theft. Like the Guiness ad says, "BRILLIANT!" |
| These stickers are ghey. They won't get anyone sympathy in any locale that I'm aware of, and are an invitation to have your vehicle messed with. The best I've seen lately was Glynn County PD (Brunswick, GA) with the "thin blue line" sticker on their patrol vehicles! As if no one could guess by the crown vic with graphics, lights, and all the rest on it! lol |
Never heard the term badge bunnies, but a holster sniffer is that guy or gal that is not leo, but act like they are. Around my AO they all drive old CVPI's with DARE tags. Someone here a while back described them as "police groupies" & that's a better term than how I would politely describe them. |
Holster Sniffer=Crazy Women that like to throw sex at a uniform.... usualy go through an entire department causing much strife and discipline problems..... AT least in my AO |
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