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NYPD Will Allow Sikh Officers to Wear Turbans and Grow Beards in Policy Change
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/12/29/nypd-will-allow-sikh-officers-wear-turbans-grow-beards-policy-change/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social ^

Posted on 12/29/2016 1:45:42 PM PST by DOC44

The New York Police Department is allowing Sikh officers to wear full turbans in place of the traditional police cap and grow beards up to a half-inch long as required by their religion. NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill announced the change in policy Wednesday following a graduation ceremony for new recruits surrounded by officers wearing navy blue turbans kept in place with police brass, CNN reported. “We want to make the NYPD as diverse as possible, and I think this is going to go a long way to help us with that,” O’Neill said. “It’s a major change in our uniform policy, so we had to go about it carefully. And now I have the opportunity to make the change, and I thought it was about time that we did that.” O’Neill said the NYPD has about 160 Sikh officers.

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Damn.....is this for real?
1 posted on 12/29/2016 1:45:42 PM PST by DOC44
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Not all rag-heads are created equal but it is a slippery slope.


2 posted on 12/29/2016 1:46:47 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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No issue. At all.


3 posted on 12/29/2016 1:48:10 PM PST by romanesq (For George Soros so loved the world, he gave us Obama)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

There’s that “diverse” word again.

I dont mind the Sikhs wearing them, but you know muzzies will follow.

And I’m sure they’ll enforce our laws, not theirs /s

The only drawback with the Sikhs is they won’t be able to go undercover investigating Christian and Jewish sects :)

JK


4 posted on 12/29/2016 1:49:12 PM PST by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: DOC44

Oh, great. Make them stand out to jihadis who hate them even more than other kafirs.


5 posted on 12/29/2016 1:49:23 PM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: DOC44

And for muslims to where their sacks, and their female officers in burkhas?

It will come. This seems like bad policy to me.


6 posted on 12/29/2016 1:51:11 PM PST by onedoug
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To: DOC44

I don’t recognize America anymore. I’m more angry than sad, every day that passes. Every other group assimilated and accepted the American Way, or didn’t participate. Now we’re becoming more and more a third world $hithole, in all senses of the word. I’m sorry for my kids and future grand kids, for me, I’ll be dead and won’t care at that point. The great exception and experiment in human history, continues to circle the bowl....and become....like every where else. Same for Europe, Canada and Australia. Pathetic.


7 posted on 12/29/2016 1:52:47 PM PST by john drake (Lucius Accius-Roman,170 BC - "oderint dum metuant" translated "Let them hate so long as they fear")
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The enemy of my enemy is my friend

Gotta love those Muslim hating Sikhs


8 posted on 12/29/2016 1:53:18 PM PST by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: DOC44

Coming soon: Islamic officers will be allowed to carry copies of the Koran and wield three-foot-long swords.


9 posted on 12/29/2016 1:55:10 PM PST by Steely Tom ([VOTE FRAUD] == [CIVIL WAR])
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

Sikhs are honest to a fault and incredibly brave.They should be some of the finest officers on the force there or anywhere.


10 posted on 12/29/2016 1:59:19 PM PST by Farmer Dean (168 grains of instant conflict resolution)
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Who cares? Sikhs should be allowed to wear beards and turbans. I don’t see an issue.


11 posted on 12/29/2016 2:01:06 PM PST by dinodino
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And for muslims to where their sacks

Where they sack at? Show me the sack! Where the sack at?

Where at that sack they got?

12 posted on 12/29/2016 2:01:19 PM PST by humblegunner
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To: miss marmelstein

It seems to be optional, not required


13 posted on 12/29/2016 2:02:08 PM PST by bigbob (We have better coverage than Verizon - Can You Hear Us Now?)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

You just can’t be as stupid as what you just wrote.


14 posted on 12/29/2016 2:04:30 PM PST by sakic
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every Sikh i have ever met has been sincerely kind, nice... good people... they make pleasant neighbors... that’s all i have...


15 posted on 12/29/2016 2:04:35 PM PST by latina4dubya (when i have money i buy books... if i have anything left i buy 6-inch heels and a bottle of wine...)
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I work with a Sikh gentleman and he has been nothing but kind to me. Religion is never discussed...I don’t ask about his and he doesn’t try to keep me from practicing mine. Just my 2 cents, just that he is a nice person


16 posted on 12/29/2016 2:05:38 PM PST by 4everontheRight (And the story began with..."Once there was a great nation......")
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To: onedoug

Only ones who cant wear anything religious of course are Christians.

None of this is good. If its a non religious job, and the uniforms and dress codes are to be uniform...

No more upending stuff for minorities while not allowing the majority the same. Adhere to standards or go somewhere else. They do this on purpose because they know the standards ahead of time, no one hides them or surprises them.


17 posted on 12/29/2016 2:07:20 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: DOC44

So much for separation of Church and State.


18 posted on 12/29/2016 2:09:01 PM PST by TomServo
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To: DOC44

Comrade de Blasio is certainly on the cutting edge of cultural dress and grooming issues.


19 posted on 12/29/2016 2:12:15 PM PST by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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“Not all rag-heads are created equal but it is a slippery slope.”

Exactly right. If this is allowed, why shouldn’t burquas be allowed, and what about robes for mohammedan officers if that is what their cultural identification calls for? Who are we to impose our dress codes on people just because the country belongs to us (or once did belong to us)?


20 posted on 12/29/2016 2:15:21 PM PST by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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