Re: CSI Miami - 4th Amendment Violation of the Week

In article <1192163805.270209.40220@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 "blakgard@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
" <blakgard@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> Thanatos wrote:
> > blakg...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> >> Thanatos wrote:
> >>> Anim8rFSK wrote:
> >>>> I wondered what a 'flat badge' was supposed to be; I
> >>>> thought maybe it was only a credit card ID, but when
> >>>> they showed it, it was the ID and his ****eld . . .
> >>>
> >>> It's actually a made up Hollywood term. The proper term
> >>> would have been "badge and creds".
> >>
> >> No, it's not a made up Hollywood term. It's what actual
> >> cops (and other emergency workers) call it.
> >
> > No, it's not. I've been in law enforcement for over a decade now
> > and CSI: Miami is the first time I've heard that term.
> 
> I've known it for years because of my friends on the police
> department. And it is certainly a term that appears thousands of times
> in law enforcement/emergency worker internet forums.
> 
> In fact, there was, at one time, a company that called themselves
> "Flat Badge, Inc." because they made the darned things. Not sure if
> they still exist.

Google search for "flat badge" turns up 7000 hits, mostly people selling 
holders and accessories for them.

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