Does Cleveland Police Logo Contain Image Of Pig?

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http://www.newsnet5.com/news/7516014/detail.html

Union President Says Claim Of Pig Image Not A New One

POSTED: 5:51 pm EST February 27, 2006

CLEVELAND -- ...

Some people are saying that there's a hidden image in the logo on the side of the car...

"Yeah, now that you point it out, it does look like a pig. Wow, that's funny, sort of," said Lakewood resident Jennifer Carrico...

The logo dates back to the late 1960s when the department revamped their look. Right after the Hough Riots, it was changed in an attempt to change the face of the police department.

NewsChannel5 spoke with some Cleveland police officers, none of whom were bothered by the logo or the claims.



Does police emblem hide image of a pig?

http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/tipoff/index.ssf?/base/opinion/1141032921207320.xml&coll=2

Monday, February 27, 2006
Michael K. McIntyre
Plain Dealer Columnist

...Greg Reese, a former Cleveland Heights resident who moved last year to Madison, Wis., immortalized the "subliminal pig" in a short movie - a music video really - he made for an Independent Film Channel Internet contest. Best films get on the cable network.

Reese's film is rated in the middle of the pack of about 600 films, but the network told him it wants to use the short at the Sundance Film Festival to advertise its Web site, medialab.ifc.com.

Reese, who said a friend pointed out the pig to him last year, surmised in the film that a pot-smoking peacenik won a logo contest, singing: "He drew his shield, and he hid a pig. And the city I serve, put it on my rig."

Larry Rutherford, former head of the Po lice Department's traf fic division and now president of the Cleve land Police Museum, said the logo was de signed by the city's sign shop in the late 1960s or early 1970s, after the racial riots that rocked Hough...

[JVS]

1. Oink oink, my good man!

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2. That's kinda' cute. nt

[GirlinContempt]

3. I know when my clients come to me and say

"Aly, there have been horrific riots. People are seriously pissed. The country is undergoing a race revolution. My city is scarred."
I immediately tell them, "You need a snappy new logo. Nothing like a jazzy emblem to soften the blow!"