Villanueva said Wednesday that the change to the department’s longstanding practice of requiring deputies to wear tags engraved with their last names on their uniform shirts was in response to recent incidents in which deputies were harassed and had personal information revealed by protesters.
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My old town of Modesto used to hold a week long celebration ending with a cruise to celebrate the movie American Graffiti which was set in that town. On Graffiti Night during the cruise a couple decades ago, the cops would either take off their name tags or switch with other cops, then beat the shit out of anybody that caused a disturbance or even just backtalked them. That practice went on for years.
Yeah, when I was working riot duty in Louisville early this year we all pulled off our nametapes, or had to cover them with tape of they were sewn on. Don't need the idiots following me home.
ReplyDeleteMatt in KY
Well, since everyone is a citizen of everywhere, and race is a social construct, why not just have the department decide that every officer is now a Viet named Phuc Yu? Modern problems require modern solutions.
DeleteIt still happens.
ReplyDeleteLASO deputies routinely swap name plates before the Rose Parade and Rose Bowl.
That's why you see little Asian deputies named Washington, and huge black deputies named Wong.
Now they're just making those shenanigans official policy.
During the 1960s on Saturday afternoons, we cruised K Street in downtown Sacramento.
ReplyDeleteTo stop the fun and instead of tuning-up young rowdies, the government agents turned our cruise strip into a concrete maul with planters and fountains.
Immediately, after 4pm weekdays after the government agents went home to the suburbs, the place turned into a sterile desert.
And the bums turned it into a battle-zone.
Occasionally, the K Street maul obstacle course was a race-track for high-speed contests between Sacramento city LawEnforcementOfficials and Sacramento County LawEnforcementOfficials.
All in good clean fun, of course...