The Thin Blue Line is a colloquial term for police and police forces.\u00c2\u00a0 The term derives from ‘The Thin Red Line’ and suggests that a thin line of police officers is all that prevents civilized society from descending into disorder.\u00c2\u00a0 It is sometimes used as a negative term against police who cover up criminal activity of fellow police officers.
\nThe Thin Blue Line (1988) is a documentary film about the murder of a Texas police officer who had stopped a car for a routine traffic citation.\u00c2\u00a0 The police are presented with two males, one a local boy with a criminal record (David Harris, a boy who returned to his hometown bragging that he had murdered a policeman) and the other a 28-year-old guy with no criminal record (Randall Adams). The documentary represents testimony suggesting that the police altered, fabricated, and covered up evidence to convict the guy they wanted to be […]<\/p>\n
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