No offense to the real police officers in here, but I am just curious why cops get called "pigs". I may even want to become a police officer some day.
2006-08-12 19:55:51 · 12 answers · asked by Spikester 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
I don't recall, I think it had something to do with Orwell's Animal Farm, but the counter-response was
Pride
Integrity
Guts
2006-08-12 19:57:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
You're all wrong.
New York had the first modern day police force and the majority of them were immigrants from Ireland. They were called pigs cuz the Irish were called pigs to begin with. It was known as a "Murphy Job" cuz of all of the Irish that signed up to take the position.
2006-08-12 21:01:15 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Pigs were thought of as the "fat cats" of society, preying on the empoverished and downtrodden. The Police were thought of as their agents and therefore took on the name of the oppressor, the Pigs. "Here come the Pigs." It meant that the enforcers of empoverishment were at hand. Oppressors. The ones who would keep you in your place. The ones fomenting hatred. You know, the Republicans (and sometimes some stupid Democrats, like Johnson)... But maybe I'm wrong.
2006-08-12 20:27:40 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nah, it was just something that came out of the sixties. First they were called fascist pigs because they took delight in breaking open people's heads at colleges where people were protesting the war in Vietnam; or at political rallies where the old white men politicians (notably Richard Daly, the mayor of Chicago) tried to stop the flow of history by having his pig battalion beat the **** out of college students at the Democratic National Convention in 1968. Then it was just shortened to "pigs". They're a doomed lot, pigs are, by the way. Of all the people whom History recognizes as GREAT, those persons have held almost every occupation imaginable: musicians, poets, kings, slaves, writers, shopkeepers, shoemakers, tent makers, doctors, whatever. All except for one particular role. The role of a policeman. There is no person whom history considers great who was ever a policeman. It changes them. It corrupts them and it corrupts their souls.
2006-08-12 20:27:26 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
What does it matter? Does it bother you? I wonder if it bothers cops or do cops just laugh it off.
Cops really do have a hard job.A lot of people hate them because ot their authority.People dont like being told what they have to do.Most cops are good men and women.If you become a cop,be careful and good luck too you.
2006-08-13 00:17:15 · answer #5 · answered by pops 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
truckers who knows,to the good cops thanxs for a good service to the ones who have planted crap or used authority to take advantage of another they are low life pigs
did you ever watch the documentary about the cops
in lex ky who used there service there power to distribute coke in the 80's those where truly pigs,one the biggest cocaine rings ever
2006-08-12 20:02:08 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess it started vin the 60s with the hippies.
2006-08-16 09:06:04 · answer #7 · answered by charles 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know where the phrase originated, but I know that it got its popularity from the 90's hit "Wayne's World." =)
2006-08-12 20:11:34 · answer #8 · answered by Dolly 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You heard of Charles Manson? He began it.
2006-08-12 19:58:02 · answer #9 · answered by Brennus 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
probably due to the fact they're often associated with donuts
2006-08-12 19:57:24 · answer #10 · answered by DeAd DiScO 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋