"I think it might be helpful," he adds of Facebook's current trial strategy of badging problem content with warnings.
William J. Ryan, a Democrat representing White Plains on the County Board of Legislators, blamed Mayor Joseph M. Delfino, a Republican, for failing to address the badge drain problem.
"They put out the word and make offers," he said, "and once they have one officer, they ask, 'You got any friends who aren't happy there?' " He said the only realistic solutions to the badge drain problem are stopping these chiefs from poaching his officers and adopting laws to make them repay instruction costs to departments whose officers they hire.
New Rochelle, a department with 186 officers, suffered chronic badge drain problems a decade ago.
Some are noble marks of triumph over a health problem, badges of honor of a life well-lived or simply reminders of a good story.
"Our problem is badges," the Iraqis told the Ambassador.
One imagines the survival skills badge would present little problem to the new chief scout, Bear Grylls.
The aide, Stu Loeser, said that he had heard of journalists "supposedly" wearing police press badges who "allegedly encountered problems on the streets of New York".
Those cards and badges do their job, but they can be both cumbersome and prone to problems.
Having a cocaine or heroin problem isn't exactly a badge of honour, but it shouldn't be stigmatised more strongly than alcoholism.
But in what may be an implicit acknowledgment that diesel power has some image problems, the cars will carry badges on their trunks saying BlueTec, not diesel.
