Seems like every time I see a US police officer on video they have full arm sleeves.
Is getting tattooed a bragging right in US police circles?
A lot of gangs use tattoos for identification and loyalty reasons.
Everyone in the us these days is heavily tattooed. The stigma around it has faded and you even regularly see face tattoos now. Even pop stars are tatted up- something you never saw 20 years ago. There’s like a generation of guys walking around looking like post Malone now.
Im Canadian and same, i had a Karen where I work get upset because I got a visible tattoo. She previously complained about my hair being too long for a man. That’s why we have laws that say that unless it’s an offensive tattoo, it’s not an issue, and unless it’s a health or safety concern, your hair is nobody’s business. So many of the “offensive or inappropriate” hairstyles turn out to be ethnic, so laws had to be put in place to protect people from these antiquated work policies
Even then, “tough guy” culture includes “tough guy” tattoos, and cop is one of the top “tough guy” jobs, so there’s a strong correlation there.
Yep not that long ago employers wouldn’t hire people with tattoos or piercings or wild colors of hair, but I guess it became so popular they had to change their standards.
Yeah this is another of those things that are so surprising to me. I got tattoos almost 40 years ago, and back then it was so countercultural, if another woman with tattoos saw mine, she would talk to me, it was a small club. I never would have dreamed that 25 years later my boss would be getting a shitty tattoo at the mall.
I have a face tattoo! It’s just a cute little tiny star on my cheekbone, but still.
Gang tattoos.
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A lot of it comes from the fact that there’s a lot of retired military personnel that trying to police force. And a lot of military personnel have tattoos.
Tats aren’t a problem these days.
I never said it was.
I’d bet they own far more Tapout shirts than average per-capita. Possibly the majority of all Tapout shirts, if you include all cops.
I honestly hadn’t noticed this. I see it in ICE though
