Verkkoofficial site of the brownsville police department, public information, police news and resources. Verkkoin his 1988 documentary, the thin blue line, errol morris explores the 1976 murder case of police officer robert wood and the man convicted for the murder, randall. Verkkothe origin of the thin blue line dates back to an 1854 battle during the crimean war, in which a british infantry regiment, in red uniforms, stood its ground. Verkkounravelling the “thin blue line” from colonial dispossession, to antebellum slavery, to the black codes, to jim crow, to redlining and exclusionary. Verkkothe short, fraught history of the ‘thin blue line’ american flag the controversial version of the u. s. Flag has been hailed as a sign of police solidarity and criticized.
