Independence Embroidery

Law Enforcement

Our owner is not a police officer. He is a retired Missouri state firefighter, and he would tell you that before you had to ask.

What he is, is a patched member of Gunners Law Enforcement MC. He came on in 2009, when it was one chapter in Missouri. He became its webmaster and ran its public relations, and the club grew past twenty five chapters. That was the first thing he helped build in this community, and he has spent the years since helping officers build clubs of their own.

Law enforcement club colors on a leather vest, embroidered by Independence Embroidery in Owensville, Missouri. — Sons of St. Michael. Top rocker, archangel center patch, and a United States bottom rocker.

What that work looks like

Through Full Throttle Full Mag we publish a constitution and a set of bylaws that any club can download and adapt as its own, on one condition: credit Full Throttle Full Mag on your site. They have been downloaded more than a thousand times.

Several times a year we come in at the ground floor with a new club. Foundational documents. Securing their colors. Making certain the club holds control of its own process from the beginning, rather than discovering later that a vendor holds it instead.

We are used to how the job runs

Officers call from a patrol car. From a stakeout. On a schedule that has nothing to do with when a shop is open, and in conversations that stop in the middle and pick up three days later.

That is normal here. It does not need explaining and it does not cost you your place in line.

Blue Daos LEMC worldwide club colors on a leather jacket, embroidered by Independence Embroidery in Owensville, Missouri. — Blue Daos colors, a long way from the shop.

A motorcycle club member holding an embroidered center patch against a black leather vest with embroidered front tabs, made by Independence Embroidery in Owensville, Missouri. — A Blue Daos member holding his center patch, the front of the vest already lettered.

The part nobody says out loud

People who have worked fire, military, or law enforcement sometimes find it hard to explain themselves to someone who has not. Not because they think less of anyone. Because they have seen people at their worst, and that does not travel easily into an ordinary conversation about thread colors.

You will not have to translate here.

Three services, three colors

This page carries three of the six colors in our service code.

Blue: Law enforcement
Brown: Sheriff's department
Gray: Corrections

Sheriff's departments and corrections are not an afterthought to policing and we do not treat them as one. Each has its own color for the same reason each has its own job.