I would like to take this opportunity to remind everyone that this is not some new phenomenon and the police had machine guns before most of the military did. pic.twitter.com/b87yOSdQyx
— Tamara K. (@TamSlick) September 10, 2021
Any idea where the tradition of police in the US wearing blue uniforms came from? You guessed it: Army surplus.
"Many cities like Los Angeles adopted the same practice of using Union Army surplus uniforms in the days following the Civil War. Similar photos of NYPD officers wearing the old uniforms and “Bobbie”-style helmets can be seen as early as 1893."
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