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Most of the killings tragically involve a definable list of deadly tactical errors
UW-Madison Police Chief Kristen Roman said the flag has been “co-opted” by extremists with “hateful ideologies”
Commissioner Dermot Shea tweeted that the behavior of the officer was “One hundred percent unacceptable. Period.”
“When we put on this uniform, we are apolitical,” Chief of Department Terence Monahan said. “We have no stance in one way or another”
Marchers on Wednesday night were calm and peaceful following Tuesday night’s fatal shootings
The company amended its policy against political attire after a photo taken at a Kansas plant labeled a pro-police phrase ‘unacceptable’
The flag, given to the sheriff’s office by the Weymouth Police Department, was raised in a ceremony on Monday
Chief Glenn Olsson said the controversy over the fire department’s flying of the flag partly contributed to his decision to retire
A citizen complaint about the flags prompted Hingham’s police and fire chiefs to ask for the flags’ removal
The Department of Transportation threatened the artist with summonses or worse if he doesn’t remove a blue line painted on a road divider
The flags were originally purchased and flown on the firetrucks to show support for a fallen police officer
New Woodbridge residents are petitioning town leaders to remove the blue line running down Main Street
Chief Bill Scott told officers he considered the masks a “meaningful expression,” but worried that some may see them as “divisive and disrespectful”
The 14-foot-tall mural, which bears images of a lion, a badge and the Thin Blue Line flag, was commissioned to honor police work and boost morale
The book is the second in a trilogy examining actual line-of-duty events that have ended the lives of law enforcement officers in Los Angeles County
The flags are a way to honor the memories of two Harford County sheriff’s deputies killed in the line of duty in 2016
County has agreed to pay $100K to a corrections technician who sued after a co-worker pinned up the flag
The bar said the flag has since been removed
Kentucky is the second state to adopt the classification for its first responders
Lawmakers are in a heated debate over the bill
A bill to double penalties for crimes targeting police officers, firefighters and medics — in or out of uniform — is moving ahead
The bill, dubbed the Blue Lives Matter Act of 2016, would expand the federal hate crime statute to include LEOs
They gathered together and loudly endorsed the city’s Police Department