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California Attorney General Recalls Honorary Badges

NPR | By Robert Smith
Published September 6, 2007 at 1:00 PM EDT

California Attorney General Jerry Brown is recalling honorary badges.

Those honorary shields and stars resemble official law enforcement badges. Brown's office has declared the practice of distributing honorary badges illegal.

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Corrected: September 7, 2007 at 2:12 PM EDT
In citing a bit of movie dialogue and attributing it to Blazing Saddles, we neglected to mention Treasure of the Sierra Madre as the original source of the quotation.
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Robert Smith is a host for NPR's Planet Money where he tells stories about how the global economy is affecting our lives.