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To: Theophilus

Law enforcement tends to wear light brown in Florida.

I just read a few days ago that Robert Peel, the father of modern policing, choose blue for the police to differentiate them from the red uniforms of British soldiers.


46 posted on 09/09/2024 5:41:25 PM PDT by Brian Griffin ("Why didn’t she do it three and a half years ago?”)
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To: Brian Griffin

And hence they were called ‘Peelers’….


85 posted on 09/09/2024 6:56:42 PM PDT by Rummyfan ( In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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