Like a magnet to a metal badge, the Badge Bunny.

By badge bunny we don’t mean a rabbit wearing a shield, we mean something a lot different. This week we will cover this very interesting type as a continuation of our summer whacker/wannabe sub culture updates. Badge Bunny in the public safety field usually means a female trying to find a relationship with anyone wearing a badge. Badge Bunnies (BB) do this for the sole fact that the person they are chasing is a person of power in their eyes and nothing more. These type of people are known by many names in the areas they infest but we will refer to them as Badge bunnies to keep things simple here.

You will usually find BB’s hanging out in favorite fire department and law enforcement hangouts and attractions. BB’s are usually very promiscuous and find it hard to stay in a committed relationship for too long due to their general goals. When the newly acquired power play wears off and the human factor comes out in their new found mate, the BB will quickly leave them and start the cycle all over again. BB’s will usually have a whole wardrobe of items embellishing the logo of the department they favor or very promiscuous clothing, even more so than females of the same age group. Sometimes but not always you will find BB's working in public safety support positions as dispatchers, secretaries, boosters, and other fringe positions that work closely with the field.

BB’s can easily be found trying to have a relationship with anyone that is single in a certain department. This can be a running joke in a department as the BB has worn out their welcome or their true colors have been found out.

So you might ask why policeposers.com decided to cover the topic of badge bunnies? Well, the answer is simple. Like a lot of the types of people we cover on this site, the badge bunny exists for the simple lust for power and nothing more. Take away the fact they want to hunt down a person with a badge to live off of their prestige, then we wouldn’t have them.

SAR whackers, searching for a reason to use their lights.

On part two of our whacker subculture summer updates, we bring you the SAR whacker type. Now we know there are legitimate groups out there who use lighting. We understand in some area SAR groups are needed. Most times these groups are endorsed by companies, public safety agencies, or even on their own. Also to add to that most of them are certified to do the services they do and are part of the overall emergency response doctrine.

With that being said, there is also a subculture of SAR whackers out there and we will discuss that here. In some areas where SAR services are needed but there is a vacuum, whackers might create an SAR group. With little training for motivation for public safety, these whackers outfit their car with borderline legal lighting setups and use them when they can. Most of these whackers will have little if any SAR personal gear but will be the first to show up to a lost child call in their POV’s with lights shining brightly.

These types of groups usually start up with a core of true wannabes trying to be official and thus evolve into full fledged whacker groups. At times, they might even use catchy names such as “XXXXX County SAR” or “XXXXX City SAR” to sound more official than other names without official endorsement from the respective cities or counties.

In the past there have been SAR groups that were started for the sole fact to imitate professionals. These groups will use their SAR status to springboard themselves into other avenues of the public safety field. A good example is the TAMSAR group (Team Alpha Medical Search and Rescue). This group started out as a simple group of kids forming a SAR group to a full fledged impostor organization performing law enforcement type duties using the Bureau of Land Management as their authorization.

In closing, we want to express SAR is a legitimate field, but as with security, it is a target of abuse and impostors. This stems from the fact there is very little national and state level certifications or official recognition of stand alone SAR groups. Another issue stems from the fact SAR is a broad field that entails a lot of duties and tasks. This gives impostors and other abusers a wide range of ways to commit illegal and unethical acts while under the umbrella of the SAR title.