For several years, a black, thin blue line flag hung in front of the department, wrote Rataj, but the flag was retired because it was getting faded and tattered. A new flag was purchased to replace ...

Most black American flags are either entirely black with no other distinguishable feature, or in black and white, with black replacing the red stripes and blue square. The "Thin Blue Line" flag ...

Township of Springfield, decided by Judge Paul Matey, joined by Judge Anthony Scirica, concluding that the policy was unconstitutional: The "Thin Blue Line American Flag" ("the Flag") is "a black ...

The Parma Police Department recently took down the Thin Blue Line flag that was flying outside the department building. The ...

Larry Hogan (R) on Sunday expressed “disgust” over a county official’s decision to prohibit a police department from showcasing a wooden flag featuring a thin blue line, saying that ...

Syracuse, N.Y. — A Syracuse Pride flag put up on a community pole in Eastwood was stolen this week and replaced with an upside-down pro-police “thin blue line” flag. The Pride flag went up ...

Idaho’s new flag law, which has been skirted by some cities, has affected a Treasure Valley town that traditionally flew a pro-police flag. The law, passed by the Idaho Legislature this year to limit ...

But as a political totem it is undeniably powerful. A merger of the American flag with a symbol representing the police, the thin blue line flag has become a potent statement in its own right.

An eastern Pennsylvania township wanted to keep its policy banning its township police from displaying the “thin blue line” flag” so badly that it appealed a federal judge’s ruling to an ...