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Occupying forces, or: No, seriously, I could swear the water in this pot is getting a little hotter… (#8)

This is a photo of a bumpersticker which an observant reader recently sent to Radley Balko.

It features an armed, black-uniformed cop on the left and an armed soldier standing at attention on the right. In the background, a huge American flag flies over an image of a city building in New York and a ruined city presumably somewhere in Iraq or Afghanistan. Up to, it reads SUPPORT OUR TROOPS: AT HOME AND ABROAD, with a PBA shield and "Patrolman's Benevolent Association of the City of New York, Patrick J. Lynch, President," printed underneath.

Support Our Troops, at home and abroad

So, there you have it. All according to the Patrolman’s Benevolent [sic] Association of the City of New York, Patrick J. Lynch, President, government cops are soldiers, law enforcement is occupation, and your hometown is a battlefield. Care to guess who’ll get treated as the enemy?

Do you feel safer now?

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