{"id":36764,"date":"2013-07-24T09:09:42","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T13:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36764"},"modified":"2013-07-24T09:09:42","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T13:09:42","slug":"stolen-valor-or-stolen-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36764","title":{"rendered":"Stolen Valor or Stolen Design?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/sltrib\/politics\/56587863-90\/military-ribbons-police-lopez.html.csp\">Salt Lake Tribune<\/a> retired Marine Sergeant Major Nick Lopez noticed that his local police department, in their formal uniforms, were wearing awards that were real military decorations, like the Silver Star, the Bronze Star, Army Distinguished Service Medal and others. That didn&#8217;t sit well with SGM Lopez so he complained to his city government, which seemed to ignore his complaints.<\/p>\n<p>However, they took his letters and emails seriously;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Many of the police ribbons earned by officers are similar in design to military ribbons, said West Valley City Manager Wayne Pyle, a 21-year Army reservist who took a leave of absence in 2006 for a 15-month deployment to Afghanistan. Pyle said the police and city officials exhaustively researched the issue and determined the department had done nothing wrong. But the ribbons officers earned from the department are being redesigned to eliminate any perception that they are wearing military awards without earning them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I know it&#8217;s probably cheaper and easier for police departments to just pick up some bits of ribbon from the local surplus store, but as we&#8217;ve pointed out in the past, there are awards available to local LEOs that are designed specifically for their use. they should really take advantage of that option instead of giving the impression that officers earned military awards.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pyle and Powell pointed out that the law specifies the wearing or use of the awards are criminal if they are done to intentionally commit fraud. Having local police ribbons that are similar to military ribbons doesn\u2019t fit that criteria, they say.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, well, that doesn&#8217;t make it right. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Salt Lake Tribune retired Marine Sergeant Major Nick Lopez noticed that his local police &hellip; <a title=\"Stolen Valor or Stolen Design?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36764\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stolen Valor or Stolen Design?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-who-knows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}