The thin blue line snapped earlier this week when an anonymous D.C. police officer took a sarcastic shot at prosecutors on the police department’s Web site.

As a matter of course, the D.C. police post the “Officers of the Month” awards on the department’s Web site. On Wednesday, a citation hailing 1st District officers for a drug arrest carried the following remarks: “Due to the circumstances beyond the control of Officers Leslie and Suter, the case was presented before a grand jury by a Secret Service Agent considered to be an expert by the U.S. Attorney’s Office who was handling rapid indictment cases for the day. Needless to say, the grand jurors did not indict the subject.”