D'oh! Operation Flagship
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What is Operation Flagship?
Yeah, you know what the edition this is? This is the law enforcement sometimes thinks they're so cute and clever edition. Right. Man, I can't wait to point out how many cutesy little names and acronyms pop up in this story. And this, and a lesson. If you're a criminal and you ever think something might be shady and it might be a sting operation, just look at any name that they've given you and, like, read it backwards or see if it spells an acronym that says, like, we nabbed you, buddy, or something like that. Like, that's how cutesy they got. And you'll see. I'll just throw that out there, and we'll talk about them as they pop up.
And there's our daily assistance in helping criminals evade capture by law enforcement.
Yeah. Was that what I was doing? I certainly was. All right. Moving on.
So we're talking about one specific operation, Operation Flagship, which was conducted by the U.S. Marshal Service back in, I think, 1985. And It's just kind of mind boggling. What did you hear about this? Did it did somebody write in or did you already know about it being an NFL fan?
Yeah. You know what? I'm not sure. Now that I think of it, this may have been a listener request. And I'm going to look that up real quick because I hate not shouting people out. Yeah, I'm with you when that happens.
So how I keep talking while you look. OK. So the U.S. Marshal Service, they're one of the first American law enforcement agencies. They were founded back in 1789. Dave helped us with this. It's Dave Week, by the way. Oh, yeah. As Dave put it, in the time of George Washington— So they've been around quite a bit. And over the course of this history, like they've done a lot of different really kind of great stuff. They escorted students into the first segregated schools, black students to segregated schools. They protected them. They enforced prohibition, which I guess, depending on your views on prohibition, it was great or not. They operated the U.S. Census, which seems like they were at the time just really looking for busy work for the marshal service.
Just give them a bunch of pencils.
And then and turn them loose. And then famously, Chuck, anytime you hear somebody call like a Wild West law enforcement guy marshal.
Mm hmm.
They were a U.S. marshal. That was one of the roles they played. They served as the long arm of the law in the Wild West era of American history.
Yeah. So they did a lot of things. They found a lot of busy work for them to do over the years. These days, did you mention witness protection? Not yet. Yeah. I mean, basically these days they take care of witness, the witness, they run the witness security program, AKA witness protection. Uh, if you see prisoners being transported, um, like to court or something, those are marshals doing that.
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