Pink Handcuffs? That's How We Roll in San Francisco.
Categories: Law & Order, SF Oddities
Football fans may have noticed the jarring sight of NFL teams outfitted with pink accouterments of late as a nod to Breast Cancer Awareness. And folks who get arrested in the park may have noticed cops donning the pink handcuffs to do the same.
Actually, it's not a 100-percent certainty that the unidentified officer captured in this photo is making a conscious nod to breast cancer activists' favorite color (though that's where we'd put our money). In fact, police spokesman Sergeant Mike Andreychak says that officers often purchase additional sets of cuffs to go with the standard-issue metallic pair handed out by the city. And if you like pink, you like pink.
Cops usually pick up extra pairs, Andreychak continued, in order to be able to handle multiple suspects at once or cuff up one super-large suspect too "large-framed" to comfortably slip his wrists into just one set of cuffs.
Asked if being cuffed with pink manacles would subdue or enrage an unruly type, Andreychak didn't venture to guess. But since the officer in question likely has at least one other pair of cuffs lying around, prisoners can take their pick.
"If someone objects to pink, perhaps the officer can use the chrome," says the sergeant. "Most police officers are pretty accommodating."
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Actually, it's not a 100-percent certainty that the unidentified officer captured in this photo is making a conscious nod to breast cancer activists' favorite color (though that's where we'd put our money). In fact, police spokesman Sergeant Mike Andreychak says that officers often purchase additional sets of cuffs to go with the standard-issue metallic pair handed out by the city. And if you like pink, you like pink.
Cops usually pick up extra pairs, Andreychak continued, in order to be able to handle multiple suspects at once or cuff up one super-large suspect too "large-framed" to comfortably slip his wrists into just one set of cuffs.
Asked if being cuffed with pink manacles would subdue or enrage an unruly type, Andreychak didn't venture to guess. But since the officer in question likely has at least one other pair of cuffs lying around, prisoners can take their pick.
"If someone objects to pink, perhaps the officer can use the chrome," says the sergeant. "Most police officers are pretty accommodating."
Follow us on Twitter at @TheSnitchSF and @SFWeekly
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