The oddly beautiful and sometimes disturbing artistic talent of drug cops (2015)

Patches aren’t unique to the DEA — there are program and mission patches associated with many federal agencies and programs. “In the ’70s, everyone looked like drug dealers”
Federal agencies began adopting patches in the 1970s, according to Raymond Sherrard, a retired special agent with the IRS’s Criminal Investigation division. It contains thousands of color photos of federal agency patches and was compiled by Sherrard with the assistance of hundreds of collectors, law enforcement officers and organizations.

Source: www.washingtonpost.com