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![[California Pink Patch Project flag]](../images/u/us-ca_pink.gif)
image by Tomislav Todorovic, 7 October 2019
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Every year, many police agencies roll out a pink shoulder patch for a few
weeks to support breast cancer research. Here, the Oxnard Police Department has
a pink California flag:
https://scontent-sea1-1.cdninstagram.com/
More on the Pink Patch
Project: https://pinkpatchproject.com/
Dave Fowler, 1 October 2019
The Pink Patch Project began in 2013 with the Seal Beach Police Department in
Southern California, when the SBPD officers wore pink patches on their uniforms
during Breast Cancer Awareness Month. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month
and sponsored by the American Cancer Society and similar organizations
worldwide. Since then the Pink Patch Project has become a yearly event with
multiple police agencies wearing special pink shoulder patches for the month to
support breast cancer research. The program has expanded to include hundreds of
emergency response agencies including, police, sheriff, fire, EMS and federal
departments worldwide.
In October 2019, the Oxnard Police Department
introduced a pink California bear flag as part of their Pink Patch Project
observations during Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
Sources:
1.
Historical Flags of Our Ancestors
(http://www.loeser.us/flags/protest3.html#bcam)
2. Pink Patch Project -
(https://pinkpatchproject.com/)
3. Breast Cancer Awareness Month -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breast_Cancer_Awareness_Month
Pete
Loeser, 7 October 2019
Image above is derived from the SVG image of the California state flag from
Wikimedia Commons:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_California.svg and recolored
after the source photo reported by Dave Fowler (pink and "dark pink"
approximated by websafe or halfway-to-websafe RGB values), the ratio also
modified after the same source.
Tomislav Todorovic, 7 October 2019
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