What is the "Thin Blue Line"?
There are American flags with a blue line down the middle. Or the flags of other nations modified to show the blue line. City flags with blue lines down the middle. T-shirts espousing that the blue line will be defended. Spartan helmets and the infamous Punisher skull with a blue line on them. When a cop is killed profile pictures change and a blue line runs across the photo. So what is the "Thin Blue Line"? Is it a symbol of white supremacy and an alt-right movement? A symbol of a code of silence where a cop can get away with everything under the sun and never have anything happen to them because no other cop will say anything? Or something more poetic. Perhaps a recognition that police are the ones that figuratively, and at times literally, separate normal citizenry from the evil that lurks within their fellow man? As the idea that George Orwell so plainly put forth: people sleep peacefully in their beds at night because rough men and women stand...