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Sillitoe tartan is a distinctive chequered pattern, usually black-and-white or blue-and-white, which was originally associated with the police in Scotland. [ a ] It later gained widespread use in the rest of the United Kingdom and overseas, notably in Australia and New Zealand, as well as Chicago and Pittsburgh in the United States.
The figure in the artwork—a black man dressed in a midnight blue police uniform—represents the totalitarian black mass. [3] The hat that frames the head of the policeman resembles a cage, and represents what Basquiat believes are the constrained independent perceptions of African-Americans at the time, and how constrained the policeman's own perceptions were within white society.
The blue line symbol. The "thin blue line" is a term that typically refers to the concept of the police as the line between law-and-order and chaos in society. [1]The "blue" in "thin blue line" refers to the blue color of the uniforms of many police departments.
A white former Kansas City police officer who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a Black man was released from prison Friday after Missouri’s governor commuted ...
For much of the twentieth century up to the mid-1990s, male police officers wore a dark blue (almost black) tunic with polished silver buttons (gold for the City of London Police), and trousers of matching colour with a sewn-in truncheon pocket. No stab vest was worn and much less equipment was carried than is today.
Nebraska elementary school teachers Amanda Clawson, left, and Meghan Baker, both 27, pose outside Lucas Oil Stadium with Indianapolis Police Officer Ivy Craney and her bejeweled white horse before ...
Fancy was one of the newly recruited African American commanders on a force previously controlled by Irish American police officers. According to officer Jack Hanlon during a conversation with John Kelly, "the force up until the 1960s was comprised of a majority Irish Americans with some Italian American and Jewish officers, but only a few ...
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