As every year, Breast Cancer Awareness Month begins in October. But Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department officials are taking advantage of the pink parade by wearing pink handcuffs, pink badges and other pink uniform accessories to remind people that they are under arrest for breast cancer. I’d like to invent this.
Alex Villanueva, a sheriff from Los Angeles, wrote on Twitter about the pink initiative on Wednesday and included a photo with him and two other officers holding their new pink cuffs. Unfortunately, their weapons will also not be pink.
Villanueva explains in the tweet that the pink tools are meant to “attract your attention”, as the sheriff’s department raises awareness about breast cancer and prays for a cure. He also shows up in subsequent tweets that doctors at the department’s local hospital noticed that more women were delaying mammograms as a result of covid. Nothing says “pray for tits ” to be arrested and slapped a policeman on a pink innhandcuffs – which you can’t even see properly with your cuffed hands behind you. But that’s not important.
It turned pink for healing it is a common practice used by every major NFL company at the local coffee shop. As we have seen countless times, these initiatives have no purpose other than the sale of goods in which a minor percentage is donated to Susan G. Komen Foundation, allowing brands to hit their backs 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 for sale and no parking tickets are donated to a breast cancer research foundation. Villanueva wrote on Twitter that his department donated $ 10,000 to a local hospital, but that the money did not appear to be related to the new pink equipment.
The irony of this situation did not go unnoticed by people on Twitter, one of which responded quickly with a statistic from National Commission for Correctional Health which states, “Rates of cervical and breast cancer are higher among incarcerated women, probably related to under-screening both before incarceration and during detention.” It’s almost as if the target audience it’s other police officers, rather than the underserved and under-screened people in the Los Angeles community. Maybe if the uniforms were pink, I would consider taking this more seriously.