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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
[*]Police are represented in all kinds of parades and civic showcases. Their participation in pride shows that the gay community is a normal part of society.
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There's also the flip slide of this - police participate in events like this in part to signal to the community that they're a part of it, that at the end of the day they're just people, rather than some menacing force standing apart from the community whose purpose is to oversee them and punish them when they get out of line. In other words, to combat the image that everyone was complaining about in the Police thread in re: the colour of their squad cars... this sort of engagement helps to build that trust.