It’s a hate flag, no less than the Confederate or Nazi flags, but they’re allowed too — in your window at home, or on the bumper of your personal car.
This, though, is vile —
… Tensions began when the Springfield Township Police Department incorporated the “thin blue line” flag into its official logo in 2021. …
It represents loyalty between police, not loyalty to the law, not to their oaths, not to the public: just to other cops. It’s an omerta; “blood of my blood.”
It’s antithetical to the role of police as officers of the law.
They aren’t soldiers in a trench. Their loyalty has to be to the public trust before it’s ever to “every other cop, just because they are cops.”