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Posted by: resqjyw0

FYI - All you DOC guys just got your own sticker. It is the Thin White Line. I just found out about them today at the uniform shop and saw a stack of them marked DOC.

Maybe these could become the new thing?

Posted by: pahapoika

Thin White Line ?

that's weird. i've got Blue Knight stickers , Emerald Society , FOP , etc , etc

i enjoy being a member in all these clubs , but don't put any stickers on my car because of concerns of vandalism.

Posted by: chibby

I have a badge and ID card if I get pulled over, which has happened once in 7 years. I don't drive like a maniac. That one time I did have a burnt out tail lamp of which I was unaware (and it was promptly corrected the following day).

Thin blue line was ruined years ago and has no meaning anymore. In fact, when I was working the road I would take extra notice of Thin Blue Line bearing vehicles and stop them for violations I observed. I'd say that greater than 60% of the time the drivers had no direct connection to law enforcement. "I got it from my friend" "My uncle's a cop" etc., or the car owner was a member of a quasi-law enforcement agency like Sheriff's Dept., Corrections, or Constable.

Posted by: pahapoika

or the car owner was a member of a quasi-law enforcement agency like Sheriff's Dept., Corrections, or Constable.

and another reason why i don't put any stickers on my car. these cop clubs will take your money , but if your from a "quasi-law enforcement agency" you don't rate on the food chain.

Posted by: billb

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Originally Posted by pahapoika

or the car owner was a member of a quasi-law enforcement agency like Sheriff's Dept., Corrections, or Constable.

and another reason why i don't put any stickers on my car. these cop clubs will take your money , but if your from a "quasi-law enforcement agency" you don't rate on the food chain.

It never ends on this site... someone has to thump thier chest. So what happens when you whine deputies, correction officers and constables out of a job? Do thier job? I doubt it... no then it would just be municipals and staties arguing over who is the "real" cop. IT NEVER ENDS IN HERE.

Do your job and nod at the other guy doing his.

Posted by: Delta784

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Originally Posted by pahapoika

and another reason why i don't put any stickers on my car. these cop clubs will take your money , but if your from a "quasi-law enforcement agency" you don't rate on the food chain.

I pay my MPA dues for the insurance and benefits. I give the sticker to my wife, as I haven't had an MPA sticker on my vehicle in over 15 years. If I get stopped, my badge & ID card are a lot more convincing than a sticker.

Posted by: SinePari

The latest round of "Troopers Are Your Best Protection" stickers have been issued. I've seen them conspicuously displayed on some very interesting vehicles. People are perplexed when they actually get stopped, as if these stickers give immunity when you're unlicensed, driving over 100mph, etc.

Posted by: Duff112

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Originally Posted by SinePari

The latest round of "Troopers Are Your Best Protection" stickers have been issued. I've seen them conspicuously displayed on some very interesting vehicles. People are perplexed when they actually get stopped, as if these stickers give immunity when you're unlicensed, driving over 100mph, etc.

Sine-

Not only that I'm seeing more and more TBL front plates (i.e. no front plate) on the RMV two plate issues...

time to dust off my V books.

Posted by: ptriggs

A LEOs opinion needed: I have a thin blue line sticker on my car. I received it from a family member who is a County Sheriff. Many ppl in my family are sheriffs, PO's as well as correctional officers in the MC world. Do I have the right to have this on my car? Who will hold it against me?

Posted by: j809

Quote:

Originally Posted by ptriggs

A LEOs opinion needed: I have a thin blue line sticker on my car. I received it from a family member who is a County Sheriff. Many ppl in my family are sheriffs, PO's as well as correctional officers in the MC world. Do I have the right to have this on my car? Who will hold it against me?

GIG

Posted by: Harley387

Everyone knows that thin blue line plates are just a tool for spotting dirtbags. The REAL cops have a pink triangle sticker on their cars.

Posted by: Delta784

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Originally Posted by ptriggs

Anyone I stop who has a TBL sticker or plate that's not a cop gets it stuck up their ass. If they are a cop, I strongly suggest they take it off for security and officer safety purposes.

The whole TBL was a nice idea that was taken over and perverted by the general public who wanted to jump on the bandwagon.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Harley387

Everyone knows that thin blue line plates are just a tool for spotting dirtbags. The REAL cops have a pink triangle sticker on their cars.

Pink triangles are so passe.....rainbow stickers are the way to go.

Posted by: CJIS

What with departments putting them on their Fully marked cruisers now? What ever happened to 2 blue plates? (plates that actully mean something still.)

Posted by: Trifecta

I don't have anything on my POV. However, I do have the MPA and Blue Line sticker on my wife's car. She is to shy do explain who I am. So I hope for the sake of a brotherhood the officer will ask and she will come out from underneath her rock and answer them.

Posted by: DYSguy

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Originally Posted by Delta784

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't these start as a memorial to those fallen in LOD? So you're telling me that if this person isn't a officer you're gonna shove it up there ass? That's real nice for a family member of a fallen officer. So basically you 're telling us the 304 officers killed in the LOD in Ma. alone don't matter? and the guys from 9/11? they don't matter either? What about the 160 (avg) officers killed in LOD nationaly a year?
I'm not saying they deserve a pass either. If you drive like an Asshole you deserve to get written up period. But don't fuck with em just cuz they have the lines.
I do have the sticker as a memorial to a family member killed in LOD.

Posted by: resqjyw0

A lot of Officers give their MPA and TBL stickers to their spouses. Some to their kids (if they are believed to be worthy). If you stop a car with the TBL sticker/plate, ask where they got them from. There is a reason they require badges to buy them at the uniform shop. If they didn't use a badge to get it or didn't get it from a police officer, then they should be bagged and the stickers confiscated. The blue line is a federal registered trademark of Fraternal Blue Line and legal action can be brought in federal court.

If you don't have a badge or can't get one from a police officer, you shouldn't have one. I feel the same goes for the MPA stickers. If you really feel the need to show support for LE, get one of these ribbon magnets.

Just my $0.02

Posted by: cj3441

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Originally Posted by DYSguy

I think people who display the TBL plates/stickers as a tribute to fallen Officers is the vast minority, most people who are not LEO or immediate family are displaying those items to get out of tickets. Personally as a LEO I do not display any decals of any manner on my personal vehicles.

Posted by: SOT

When I hear "blue line/blue wall/thin blue line I think of cops sticking up for other cops. If this had to do with fallen cops as a memorial, then the original intent has been severely corrupted, all the more reason to get rid of them entirely.

For the record, when I think of blue balls, I think of NE2k7

Posted by: Irish Wampanoag

Every morning I drive my son to preschool. I put on the radio and listen to Kid Rock. Motley Crue, AC/DC, OZZIE, Tesla etc.. so I dont fall asleep because I am not a morning person. Anyway getting back to the subject I drop him off say goodbye and drive back home. Everyday I see this guy driving a green SUV with a Blue Police Municipal Plate attached to the front plate area of his SUV as he passes by me I notice a green passenger plate in the back. I am thinking this wacker has a municipal plate on his front so when someone (police) running radar see his truck they ignore it figuring its a police MV. This has to be the ultimate wacker sighting ever!

Posted by: SinePari

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Originally Posted by DYSguy

Don't get stopped, and asking an officer to be "real nice" to you because a fucking sticker on your car is a gayest thing I've heard. When someone running traffic has all kinds of things going through their minds, there is a numbing effect when the excuses start flying. How the hell is an officer supposed to know your family geneology and its fallen officers?

Do you know how many times Delta stops cars

? Some of us make 20-30 mv stops per day or more, 1000s of stops per year, and the average stop is pretty cordial. So when the stories start falling out of their mouths most of the time it goes in one ear and out the next.

So DYSguy, if and when you get stopped, would you want consideration for a stupid traffic violation based upon a killed family member? Would you ask the officer to go online (thus extending the stop and chances of getting killed himself) and check the odmp for the name you give? Check your fucking attitude.

Posted by: MM1799

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Originally Posted by DYSguy

I do have the sticker as a memorial to a family member killed in LOD.

That's the biggest load of BS I've ever seen. Why dont you cut the fucking sympathy act and tell it like it is. To put up this facade is an insult to every officer killed. I'm sure their families sleep easy at night knowing that a bunch of idiot drivers try to get out of tickets by pretending they bought the sticker for the fallen.

You and I both know that every PO mourns the fallen and we dont need some material thing to show it. Donate to the memorial funds and/or go to Washing DC next time and pay your respect that way.

What about the crack dealer I pull over who has a TBL plate? Is he showing respect for the fallen? What about habitual traffic offender? The rapist? The reporter who spends their day writing we make to much & are lazy? You are either really naive or you think we are fucking stupid. I haven't figured out which one.

You want to remember the fallen? Obey the law. They died upholding it. The least you can do is respect what they died for.

Posted by: DYSguy

What about the crack dealer I pull over who has a TBL plate? Is he showing respect for the fallen? What about habitual traffic offender? The rapist?

"I'm not saying they deserve a pass either. If you drive like an Asshole you deserve to get written up period."

Not to mention 1/2 these fucks wouldn't know what the plate represents either. A couple a probing "?" is all it would take Dick Tracy.. and how does a rapist fit into this? and it was a PO association that came up with it.

http://www.thinblueline.com/

Posted by: j809

Quote:

Originally Posted by DYSguy

What about the crack dealer I pull over who has a TBL plate? Is he showing respect for the fallen? What about habitual traffic offender? The rapist?

http://www.thinblueline.com/

I didn't know DYS pulls cars over. You are one of the wackiest whackos on this site in along time.

Posted by: DYSguy

Quote:

Originally Posted by j809

I didn't know DYS pulls cars over.

Huh? WTH are you talking about? never said I did.

Posted by: MM1799

You're an idiot. It's real simple. If you actually had any experience pulling vehicles over you'd realize that the vast majority of people who have these stickers/plates are criminals or idiots who dont want tickets.

You actually expect me to believe you put a sticker on your car without expecting some kind of immunity? Again, you are either naive or think we are stupid.

You seem to not comprehend that I've been told, almost verbatim, that same crap you wrote earlier while in the BDL by the guy going 90mph.

Posted by: Irish Wampanoag

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Originally Posted by Harley387

Everyone knows that thin blue line plates are just a tool for spotting dirtbags. The REAL cops have a pink triangle sticker on their cars.

I do, I also have a Barney and Wiggle sticker and recently had to put a Thomas the Train sticker on my car to quiet my kids.

You're an idiot. It's real simple. If you actually had any experience pulling vehicles over you'd realize that the vast majority of people who have these stickers/plates are criminals or idiots who dont want tickets.

You actually expect me to believe you put a sticker on your car without expecting some kind of immunity? Again, you are either naive or think we are stupid.

Agree
Anyone who puts a sticker on their MV is not doing it for a nobel cause its to get out of a ticket. If anyone wants to be nobel to the cause they would be modest about it and donate money to Law Enforcement Memorial Fund/s enough said. Close this topic its been beat like Briney Spears career!!

PS the Thomas the Train sticker works well getting out of tickets. However Barney and Wiggles gets you a civil citation forthwith double the fines possibly even arrested!!!

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Posted by: resqjyw0

There is this wonderful thing called discretion. If people realized that they would be guaranteed a ticket because the officer that stopped them decided to use their discretion and give absolutely no consideration of a warning to those that display the TBL and/or MPA stickers/plates without being an immediate family member of a PO on top of having the sticker/plate confiscated, maybe the abuse would decline and eventually have its integrity restored.

Instead, most officers and troopers choose to just blow it off and say can you believe that person. As a result the abuse continues to grow. Then we have this stupid thread that continues to go on repeating ourselves because the issue still exists and we feel that coming here complaining is going to somehow fix it. I know there are departments where they are too busy to deal with this issue, but there are departments where the guys do have the time to help rectify the issue and choose to let it go unnoticed when on the street and complain to their colleagues later on accomplishing nothing.

Not everyone, but almost everyone, that displays TBL, MPA and other LE related stickers and plates do it hoping to be given immunity. There is a small percentage that do it because they take pride in their job, do it to remind everyone that the fallen officers are not forgotten, and do it to support those that continue to uphold the law.

The only thing better than watching someone's reaction after getting a ticket thinking the TBL grants them immunity is watching their reaction when you confiscate it thinking they have the right to display it.

Do something about it to help restore its integrity for the sake of those that have made the ultimate sacrifice trying uphold the law and for the sake of those that continue to uphold the law. Otherwise stop complaining.

Posted by: Chief Wiggins

After seeing a full patch HA and several idiot's/dealers driving with them I decided to run any mv's with blue line plates. It seems that these people think Police will not run or pull them over.

Posted by: DodgeRam

Too bad that "close thread" button is gone...

Posted by: PBC FL Cop

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Originally Posted by texdep

LenS

I may be the one who's off base and I agree with you that legit badges are not to be played with; I wouldn't go handing mine out.

But, a charm on a bracelet or an ID or badge that says Cops Mother on it---Is Mom going to go out and play Sparky -- I don't think so!

I've in other parts of the country where this stuff is common and it's no big deal and there are NOT wild groups of spouses or mothers running around making believe they are cops.

Mini badges for a wife/mother/son etc. of a LEO are quite common and are sold in most police supply stores. Of course, a LEO ID is required for their purchase.

Posted by: Irish Wampanoag

Stop!!!! Or My Wife Will Shoot!!!

Posted by: OfficerObie59

Stickers, smickers. No sticker should ever stop a guy from at least stopping the car, and being as ever vigilant whether you see one or not.

The only sticker that means barely anything is the MPA, becuase uasage of it by dirtbags has teeth (i.e. Ch. 266 § 69).

I once pulled over one of the more senior guys I work with who hasn't stopped a car since the Carter administration. He was irritated I didn't let him go b/c of the fruit salad of MPA stickers on his wife's back windshield.

Still, I guess it still has alot of meaning to some people.

Posted by: DPDM

I was wondering what the various people here thought about civilians placing the thin blue line sticker on civilian vehicles. I support the police, I want to be the police.

I am also in the process of getting my gun license, & wil likely be carrying my gun with me.

As far as I know these are the main reasons for the sticker.

What say ye all?

Posted by: Crvtte65

Where to start...

Support of the police is NOT the reason to have the sticker. The Thin Blue Line is a registered trademark (http://www.thinblueline.com/) and you must have proper ID to purchase it. So. NO don't put it on your car... and always remember... fight club

Posted by: Wolfman

Dude, put whatever sticker you want on your car, it doesn't mean anything more than what you may think it means. Just another way to attract attention.

As far as carrying in your car, stickers don't mean shit, it's up to you to decide if the circumstances dictate letting on that you're carrying. For most situations you're probably better off keeping your mouth shut. But it has been my experience that people who load their vehicles up with stickers and the like aren't always the most discreet individuals.

Posted by: CJIS

Stickes mean nothing anymore. Only thing that counts is the Tin and the ID. A tin without ID is useless by the way.

Posted by: Gil

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Originally Posted by Wolfman

Dude, put whatever sticker you want on your car, it doesn't mean anything more than what you may think it means. Just another way to attract attention.

Attract Attention!!

That's the last thing I want to do..... I had no idea

That's it, I am scraping off the rainbow of MPA stickers, blue-line stickers and FOP stickers.

Taking the row of police ball caps out of the back window

Removing the illegal blue-line plate from the front and putting that ugly red one back on.

Removing the S&W cuffs from the rear view mirror.

Selling off the 50+ led/strobes lights scattered throughout the car on ebay

(where I got all this shit from in the first place)

Oh and I'm selling my official police look alike crown vic (also bought on ebay)

Posted by: SOT

I only have the I'm ____ And I Am A Member Of Masscops.com

that one works like a fucking charm!

Posted by: jettsixx

I've always had good luck with this sticker.

Posted by: Peacemaker

Nothing , I have an ID, badge & gun. I think if it gets any futher than that, we have problems....

Posted by: OutOfManyOne

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I then told him that I'm a current Federal Officer and that the sticker represents CO's killed in the line of duty and that the sticker better come off that fucking car by the time I finish paying for my gas, or there will be trouble.

Ok tough guy, so you getting in an altercation off-duty with a convict over a stupid sticker. Nice, did they teach you that at your FLETC training?

Posted by: OutOfManyOne

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Originally Posted by FedUp

Shut up

Hey did you think that maybe he is a CO and was f*cking with you.

Posted by: exscrew

So basicaly after he told you he was an ex con and all you did was run your mouth and make a threat you had no intention of following through on right?
Lesson number one for any new CO. If you say your going to do something you better do it or your a punk.
Guess what Fedup? you just got punked off hard. Good job tough guy you just let the bad guys win one. All new CO's on this site take note

Posted by: resqjyw0

While I agree with what you say ex, at least he had the balls to say something and scared the shit out of that piece of puke. I bet it gave him some food for thought about having that sticker on his car. The only thing I'm wondering about is why he didn't remove it on the spot.

Fed, next time you confront someone off-duty, use better word choice. Don't use words that could have been interpreted as an intent to fight...unless you did intend on fighting the guy. Either way you could land yourself in some "trouble" next time. Being a Federal Officer, you're held to a higher standard and shouldn't be going around starting fights. And like ex said, "if you say your going to do something you better do it or your a punk."

Posted by: SinePari

Quote:

Originally Posted by FedUp

Just as I was handing the clerk the money, the prick drives off like a bat-outta-hell. Scumbag.

Betchya wish you coulda stopped him! Oh snap!

Rule #1 to STREET guys don't pick fights you can't win.

Posted by: philobeddoe

i can't count the number of times i've seen the blue line sticker myself . yes. it pissed me off. so i held aloft my trusty flashlight and said these words. "by the power of the BOP , I have no real authority.!" then , much like fedup . i got into my volvo and drove away. but I told the guy before i left that he can rest assured i'd be typing up a hard guy retort on masscops when i got home.

Posted by: philobeddoe

i came across a guy outside of blockbuster video once with the sticker too. it pissed me off as well , so i held aloft my trusty flashlight and said these words , " BY THE POWER OF FLETC .... I HAVE NO REAL AUTHORITY!"
Then i got on my bike and sped away. but before going i told the clown that rest assured i would be posting a hard guy retort on masscops when i got home .

Posted by: DoD102

WOW this thread wetn crazy. Guys insulting each other and the whole 9 yards. COOL! So much for all being on the same team. Who cares if people have or don't have stickers. It's not meant to get you out of something. It should be meant to diplay your pride in your profession. As for being confronted off duty. How often does that really happen? In 27 years it's happend twice to me. Once right at my house and once at Neighbors in Deerfield. I talked my way out of trouble both times and then when the time presented itself later down the road took care of business. Anyway, I can't believe I just let myself get caught up in this thread!

Lets take care of each other. That's what's important.

Posted by: Chipper

Very good "two cents" enjoyed...

Posted by: resqjyw0

What happened to FedUp's post? There isn't anything saying it was deleted like I've seen in other threads where posts are deleted. His post has just disappeared like it never existed.

Posted by: JoninNH

Undocumented posting.

Posted by: Chipper

Quote:

Originally Posted by DoD102

WOW this thread wetn crazy. Guys insulting each other and the whole 9 yards. COOL! So much for all being on the same team. Who cares if people have or don't have stickers. It's not meant to get you out of something. It should be meant to diplay your pride in your profession. As for being confronted off duty. How often does that really happen? In 27 years it's happend twice to me. Once right at my house and once at Neighbors in Deerfield. I talked my way out of trouble both times and then when the time presented itself later down the road took care of business. Anyway, I can't believe I just let myself get caught up in this thread!

Lets take care of each other. That's what's important.

I agree with this post the most......very level headed. Since this post I have done some research on the blueline. I found something even better. At www.troopercolors.com you can purchase french and electric blue window decals. I think they lean toward MA state police, this website supposedly created by a state trooper. So, I ordered mine, and love it. Also as you can see I use it as my pic.

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