Where do we get the word "PIGS" FOR OUR POLICE FORCE?

Question

And the Americans get the word is it "BEAR" or "SMOKEY"

Answer 1

P- PRIDE
I - INTEGRITY
G- GUTS
S- SERVICE

Of course it isn't used with respect. I believe the words above were added by Officers to show they are bigger than the ones who use it out of disrespect. I won't allow my children to use it when referencing Officers.

I think "Smokey" or "Bear" comes from the hats they use to and sometimes still do wear.... like the one Smokey Bear wheres.

Answer 2

Bear and Smokey are names for state troopers. Their hats look like the hat "Smokey the Bear" wears. Pig was a name given to the police by hippies. The police then made it into P-ride, I-ntegrity, G-uts.

Answer 3

If the U.S. police and firemen were invading Canada and Mexico looking for people to arrest and fires to put out, yeah, I'd say you might have a case. Just because someone's been given a gun by the government doesn't mean that it's ok to go use it wherever and whenever a few people think it would be a good idea. Being proactive can be a good thing, there just needs to be a start-to-finish plan and an ability to complete that plan. Running around, hooting and hollering, shooting up a country and killing people is not a plan. Thanks for the good laugh. EDIT Truth B. Told - ask a silly question, get a silly answer. Me - ex-mil; how about you?

Answer 4

Pigs came out of the hippy revolution of the 60's and 70's, cops goes back farther then that. as far as Bears it comes from the hat that many of them wear. It resembles the old smokey the bear hat. Same with smokey.

Answer 5

Starting in August 1968 and for a number of years afterwards, police officers were called pigs by young people, the disenchanted and even the media. This came about when a group who called themselves the Yippies, protested near the 1968 National Democratic Convention in Chicago. They had a small pig as their presidential candidate, and when police disrupted their demonstration, they started to call the police pigs. The expression caught on. Years later, the radical leaders of the Yippies became mainstream and calling police "pigs" drifted into the past.

a lot of troopers have hats that look like Smokie the Bears hat, so the name just referred to them.

Answer 6

A number of people will chime in once in a while to say that the term "pig" for a police officer is an obsolete term. More than likely, these individuals are part of the police culture.

We are now in the 21st century and the word is still very much in use among those civilians disenchanted with law enforcement.

I don't use that word because I have never been arrested and also because it is an insult to hogs. You don't have to resort to insults to criticize the police; you simply recount their actions and words. Fact>opinion.

Answer 7

Back in the 60's some of the great unwashed who were too afraid to serve their Country and we're spending most of their time smoking illegal drugs and being arrested for it came up with that epithet for Police Officers. These trashy people hated anything to do with the establishment and signgled out Police Officer for their hatred and anger. There were instances where Police Officers were deliberately ambushed and murdered as if it were some 'political statement" instead of what it was, MURDER. Of course, most of these people are now liberal democrats. One that comes to mind who was arrested for an ambush murder of a Police Officer is Angela Davis. Some of her leftist friends helped her escape and now she's living in Communist Cuba. With Fidel heading down the road to his end, she must be quaking in her sandles afraid that she may have to actually face justice for the crime she committed.

That "Smoky" and "Bear" thing came about from the truckers who were into that big CB Radio craze. That was their way of identifying a Police Officer because a lot of the Highway Patrol Officers wore campaign hats, like Smoky the Bear.

Answer 8

The real answer is that it has been this way since the 1800s.

http://kpearson.faculty.tcnj.edu/Dictionary/pig.htm

It gained notoriety in the 1960s in the countercultural movement in the United States, but it has been around for a lot longer than that. (It gained a ton of publicity when it was written on the wall in Sharon Tate's blood during the Manson Family murders... but that's beside the point).

Hope this helps.

Answer 9

Coined by people of the 60s who have an obvious problem with authority and living life by the same rules the majority follow daily. And as the other said, the hat...it's the hat.

Answer 10

the american one was made up for the CB Radio by american truckers and was Smokey bear,not sure why pigs though.