I suggest something like this just to give an idea but a better version: 
A police hat in general could give the idea of reporting imo
A police hat in general could give the idea of reporting imo
If you hadn't said that that was a police hat, I wouldn't have known what it was. Unfortunately, it's hard to depict an object with that much detail within 16 pixels.
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Regarding the counter issue, you could solve it by creating a 'title' tag with the amount of valid reports that were made. The number of results can be displayed when rolling over the icon, such as in the following mockup:
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BTCforJoe
Your image, idea of showing badge this way is great, it makes more sense to choose best one. But to be fair badge isn't good one, it's very simple and colour doesn't suit forum's template too.
I'll try to find some good ones today or tomorrow...