These law enforcement challenge coins often embrace the unpolished side of the “warrior cop” ethos—the violence, racism, and impunity that have sparked our current reckoning with American ...

The coins are such a ubiquitous part of law enforcement culture that when Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman was the top federal prosecutor for the Western District of Kentucky, his office ...

Challenge coins across American agencies tend to “look a certain way,” and Maryland State Police isn’t an “outlier” in terms of the topics troopers highlight on the coins, he said.

As the nation grapples with tensions over cases of police brutality, a small Miami company says it’s found a successful niche selling pro-law-enforcement “challenge coins” and pins online.

The law firm, Ballard Spahr, is tasked with investigating “the origin of and subsequent circulation and knowledge of challenge coins by Phoenix Police Department,” according to a contract ...

These are among the designs of collectible “challenge coins” that have been offered for sale to Louisville Metro Police officers through internal department-wide emails in recent years. While ...

He said, yeah you should ask for challenge coins. I said, chief that sounds very strange to me, I’m not like that. He said, no no no, this is what they do in the community.

According to Jordan Haines, CEO of challenge coin manufacturer CoinForce, only a few units issued coins when he was enlisted. He got his first in 1988, while working as a mechanic on fighter jets ...

Often traded, challenge coins typically are designed uniquely for the law enforcement, military and other groups they represent. Reardon and his assistant honor guard team leader, Sgt. Kameron ...

Two unofficial challenge coins presented on eBay featuring Mickey Mouse as a police officer and the thin blue line flag. Screenshot: challengecoincreations/eBay As the owner of a substantial ...