No, I’m not referring to the Fraternal Order of Police donation stickers.
I’m talking about the black rectangular stickers with the horizontal blue bar running through the middle of them. Anybody know what I am talking about? I never noticed them until I moved to Atlanta, so it’s possible that it’s just a regional thing. It’s also possible that I just never noticed them anywhere else, because they are very inconspicuous. I was told that cops give them to family members to put on their cars, as an indicator to other cops. They somehow supposedly give you a slight degree of immunity from tickets. Or so I’ve been told.
I don’t know if the sticker thing is true, but there are a lot of cars driving around Chicago with the distinctive checkered hat band of the Chicago Police Department hanging on their rear-view mirror. Supposedly, this is a sign to other cops to give the car a break when writing parking tickets.
Considering the near-omnipresence of Chicago flag shoulder patches and octagonal Police Department seal shoulder patches on black leather jackets in Chicago, I would imagine that is not at all difficult for a non police officer to buy a police-uniform hat band.
In San Diego, CA and Los Angeles, family members of cops get a small sticker that looks like a police badge that goes in the lower left corner of the rear windshield. My previous boss has one (his brother is a cop) and he’s gotten out of tickets because of that before, though they always ask who he knows who’s a cop when he gets pulled over, so I gather if the TRUE question of the post is:
Can I make a fake sticker to get out of tickets?
The answer is yes, but be prepared to have a fake cover story involving a close relative and a precinct/ city where they work to go with it.
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According to a cop who’s a long-time family friend:
I also recall reading a book by a former state trooper, who said that he would routinely get, “Do you know Officer So-and-so ? He’s a good friend of mine!” questions in an effort to get out of tickets. He would always glare and answer the motorist, “Yes, I know that officer real well. He cost me a promotion!”
Not once, he went on, did he later get a call from a fellow officer asking him what he had been talking about.
I suspect it would be difficult to have a solid cover story for being in a cop’s family, and getting caught in the lie would make things MUCH worse.
Here in Seattle, the only blue-and-black rectangular stickers I see on cars are ‘Leather Pride’ BDSM-friendly stickers. Then again, cops having all those handcuffs around, makes sense.
-sb
They say the Lord loves drunks, fools and little children.
Two out of three ain’t bad.