As every year, Breast Cancer Awareness Month begins in October. But Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department officials are starting the pink parade by wearing pink shackles, pink badges and other pink uniform accessories to remind people they are stopping to get cancer. mama. I wish I was inventing this.
Alex Villanueva, a current Los Angeles sheriff, tweeted about the pink initiative Wednesday and included a photo of him and two other officers holding their new pink fists. Unfortunately, their weapons will not be pink either.
Villanueva explains in the tweet that the pink gear is meant to “draw attention,” as the sheriff’s department raises awareness about breast cancer and prays for cure. It also points to later tweets that doctors at the local hospital in the department have noticed that there were more women postponing theirs mammograms as a result of a covid. Nothing says “pray for the tits ” how to be arrested and make a blow to a pink hanhandcuffs: which you can’t even see properly with your hands clenched behind your back. But that doesn’t matter.
It turns pink for care it’s a common practice used by all the big companies, from the NFL to the local coffee shop. As we have seen time and time again, these initiatives are useless, apart from selling goods where a smaller percentage is given to the Susan G. Komen Foundation, allowing brands to hit each other on the back to do a good job.
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But this pink wash is particularly notable for its dedication to serving absolutely no purpose. Pink handcuffs are not sold and no part of the parking tickets is donated to a breast cancer research foundation. Villanueva tweeted that his department had donated $ 10,000 to a local hospital, but that the money appears to be unrelated to the new pink equipment.
The irony of this situation did not go unnoticed by the people of Twitter, one of which responded quickly with a statistic of the National Correctional Health Care Commission which states, “Cervical and breast cancer rates are higher among incarcerated women, probably related to inadequate screening both before prison and during detention.” It’s almost as if the target audience there are other police officers, rather than the poorly served and poorly controlled people in the Los Angeles community. Maybe if the uniforms were pink too, I would consider taking it more seriously.