Inmates vs. Pigs

How did an image of a pig — the infamous ’60s-era epithet by protesters for police officers — wind up on a decal used on as many as 30 Vermont State Police cruisers?

Keith Flynn, Vermont's public safety commissioner had to explain how an alteration of decals which are affixed to the Vermont State Police Cars ended up on thirty Vermont State Police Cars.  There was, it appears, an artistically talented inmate who reshaped a spot on a cow -- an animal featured in the Vermont state seal -- in the shape of a pig.  Versions of the altered decal were placed on as many as 30 state police cruisers.

"It is fair to say the quality control will be improved at the Corrections Department and the Vermont State Police," said the executive officer of the State Police.

If you look at the cow's shoulder there is the pig!

“This is not as offensive as it would have been years ago. We can see the humor,” said Public Safety Commissioner Keith Flynn, a former state trooper and state prosecutor who was named commissioner a year ago. “If the person had used some of that creativeness [more positively], he or she would not have ended up inside.”

“We used to play in the Pig Bowl,” said Senator Campbell, the Vermont State Senate leader, and former State Police Officer. “It was the state versus the county and municipal police. While it was derogatory in the ’60s, we used it as a fundraisers for charities.”