What is the meaning of the flag drapping the coffin of the Rafael Ramos?

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It had white and green stripes and at the end, as with the American flag - the stars but fewer, I think.

[Suich]

1. Police Department flag

"At 11:45 a.m., six officers bore Officer Ramos’s coffin, draped with the green-and-white flag of the Police Department, out of the church and into the crowded street."

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3. Thank you

I wonder whether this is the custom for funerals of police officers.

[Xipe Totec]

4. More info.

The disposition of the Jack and stripes is that consecrated in American tradition by National colors. The five alternate bars of white and brilliant green have been chosen to symbolize the five boroughs of Greater New York.

The original group of villages, towns and cities which have by coalescence formed the Greater City of New York are placed in circular constellation of white stars upon the field of the Jack. The cities form the center of this constellation, the towns surround the cities, villages lie in an outer circle about the towns - and these stars reposing in unbroken order have been set upon a field of deep blue - the color of the uniform by which the guardians of our security and order are daily recognized by the millions who are within the shielding of their vigilance and strength. The fringes and tassels of gold, the blue field and the white stars and stripes, bring all the colors of our City Flag in this, our Police Flag.

The brilliant green is the traditional and sentimental Police color.



http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/us-nycp.html

[hack89]

2. It is the official NYPD flag

The five strips represent the five boroughs of NY. The 24 stars represent the villages and towns that were consolidated into NY City.

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6. Thank you for the detailed explanation (nt)

[LiberalArkie]

7. I see it as loyalty to the PD and not the state or nation.