Tuesday, June 15, 2010

A rose by any other name...

Police Officers
Law Enforcement Officers
The Fuzz
the heat
Pigs
Smokey
Barneys
Five-O
Cops

I'm sure there are others, but today I was wondering why we call them Cops. Where did that term come from? Do you know? What's your guess...without looking it up. Click on remarks and tell me. I'll post the answer later.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I think it has to do with the def of cop, like 'to take'?

Anonymous said...

Its because they used to have copper buttons on their uniforms!

ET said...

I'm with the copper buttons comment. Coppers...cops, that makes sense to me!