As every year, the month for breast cancer awareness begins in October. But Los Angeles Sheriff’s officials are gaining a head start on the pink parade by using pink handcuffs, pink badges and other pink uniforms to remind people that they are being arrested for breast cancer. I wish I could figure it out.
Alex Villanueva, a real Los Angeles sheriff, tweeted about the pink initiative on Wednesday, including a photo of himself and two other officers holding their new pink cuffs. Unfortunately, their guns will not be pink either.
Villanueva explains in the tweet that the pink equipment is meant to ‘grab your attention’ as the sheriff’s department raises awareness around breast cancer and prays for a cure. He also points out subsequent tweets that doctors in the local hospital of the department noticed that more women were postponing them mammograms due to kovid. Nothing says “pray for the tits ” like being arrested and slapping a policeman on a pink handhandcuffs – which you can not even see properly with your hands handcuffed behind you. But it’s extraordinary.
Go pink for healing is a common practice used by every major company from the NFL to the local coffee shop. As we have seen many times, these initiatives serve little to nothing but the sale of goods where a small percentage of the Susan G. Komen Foundation, which allows brands to pat themselves on the back for the good work.
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But this pink laundry is especially noteworthy because it is dedicated to absolutely no purpose. The pink shackles are not for sale and no part of the parking tickets is donated to a breast cancer research foundation. Villanueva tweeted that his department had donated $ 10,000 to a local hospital, but that it was apparently not connected to the new pink equipment.
The irony of this situation did not go unnoticed by people on Twitter, one of which responds quickly with a stat from the National Commission for Corrective Health Care it reads: “The number of cervical and breast cancers is higher among inmates, which is likely to be associated with under-screening, both before captivity and during detention.” It’s almost as if the target audience are other police officers, rather than the understaffed and under-screened people in the Los Angeles community. If the uniform was also pink, I would consider taking it more seriously.