A recent Savannah Morning News article about our local police department was so unintentionally hilarious and puzzling at the same time that I had to share.
The Savannah Chatham Metropolitan Police Department announced a redesign of the departmental insignia displayed on uniforms and vehicles. One of the reasons for the change? Get ready for this... The iconic image on the old badge (of Savannah's founder, James Edward Oglethorpe) was often mistaken for Captain Morgan. The rum bottle Captain Morgan. I swear. Here's the quote: "As for the removal of Oglethorpe's image, (Chief) Berkow said visitors unfamiliar with Savannah's history regularly equate the picture of the colonial Georgia founder with the mascot of Captain Morgan rum."
Berkow went on to say the new insignia - so generic it appears to have been selected from a movie prop department - is supposed to be "a cleaner, more professional look." No matter that the old insignia was designed in 2004 by a committee of officers from the formerly-separate Savannah and Chatham County PDs to signify the departments' merger. Only five years later it's being thrown out.
So...What did the department accomplish besides spending unnecessary money and disappointing their own officers who designed the previous badge? Having to give mini-history lessons to drunken idiots on River Street must have been enough of a burden to justify the change.
Makes you go, hmmmmm.
The Savannah Chatham Metropolitan Police Department announced a redesign of the departmental insignia displayed on uniforms and vehicles. One of the reasons for the change? Get ready for this... The iconic image on the old badge (of Savannah's founder, James Edward Oglethorpe) was often mistaken for Captain Morgan. The rum bottle Captain Morgan. I swear. Here's the quote: "As for the removal of Oglethorpe's image, (Chief) Berkow said visitors unfamiliar with Savannah's history regularly equate the picture of the colonial Georgia founder with the mascot of Captain Morgan rum."
Berkow went on to say the new insignia - so generic it appears to have been selected from a movie prop department - is supposed to be "a cleaner, more professional look." No matter that the old insignia was designed in 2004 by a committee of officers from the formerly-separate Savannah and Chatham County PDs to signify the departments' merger. Only five years later it's being thrown out.
So...What did the department accomplish besides spending unnecessary money and disappointing their own officers who designed the previous badge? Having to give mini-history lessons to drunken idiots on River Street must have been enough of a burden to justify the change.
Makes you go, hmmmmm.
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