Overall this is a quite excellent examination of a difficult issue and I'm grateful you wrote it. That said, I would have preferred a little less caginess when it came to the 'Thin Blue Line' stuff. When you say you asked about "recent cases" (terminology that usually denotes criminal acts) what precisely was the question? And when the s…
Overall this is a quite excellent examination of a difficult issue and I'm grateful you wrote it. That said, I would have preferred a little less caginess when it came to the 'Thin Blue Line' stuff. When you say you asked about "recent cases" (terminology that usually denotes criminal acts) what precisely was the question? And when the seemingly quite decent and reasonable Chief Stubbs states that he's "speaking to" the unions and "just taking a path," what does any of that mean? Let me place all my cards on the table: I think it's deplorable for civilians in particular to browbeat cops for the way they choose to honor fallen comrades. The argument seems to run like this: somewhere once upon a time some bad people used the 'Thin Blue Line' symbol for bad purposes. Is that not also true of every single symbol in the long annals of human culture? Have the cross and and the crescent and star never been misused? Instead of trying to regulate cops' expressions of grief and solidarity, what if us non-cops actually made an effort to understand and empathize?
Overall this is a quite excellent examination of a difficult issue and I'm grateful you wrote it. That said, I would have preferred a little less caginess when it came to the 'Thin Blue Line' stuff. When you say you asked about "recent cases" (terminology that usually denotes criminal acts) what precisely was the question? And when the seemingly quite decent and reasonable Chief Stubbs states that he's "speaking to" the unions and "just taking a path," what does any of that mean? Let me place all my cards on the table: I think it's deplorable for civilians in particular to browbeat cops for the way they choose to honor fallen comrades. The argument seems to run like this: somewhere once upon a time some bad people used the 'Thin Blue Line' symbol for bad purposes. Is that not also true of every single symbol in the long annals of human culture? Have the cross and and the crescent and star never been misused? Instead of trying to regulate cops' expressions of grief and solidarity, what if us non-cops actually made an effort to understand and empathize?
Very good point re the blue line. Police should be allowed to show their grief