Why are police officers refered to as pigs?

George S

I first heard it in the sixties. I never heard an explanation. It could be as simple as their gas masks give them a pig-face look. That may have become a popular insult because of other connotations for that animals habits.

I assumed the label originated with the beats. If any remain, ask one of them.

Stop spending

It started in the s 60's with the term fascist pig. Got shortened to pig. Back then any government offical, or soldier was a pig.

Jim

I believe that term started in the late 60's to early 70's. It became well known when Charlie Manson and his crew killed people and wrote pigs on the walls on the house. The police used the term of endearment by putting out pins that said PIG -Pride, Integrity and Guts.

Ron Akia

PRIDE-INTEGRITY-GUTS

william a

Law abiding citizens do not call police officers pigs. As for the popular donut reference, most police "on the street" on reasonably busy days go from call to call and often do not have the luxury of a sit-down leisurely lunch break and have to resort to going into a fast food eatery to grab something that they can eat "on the run." On a busy day they don't get a break at all. disgruntled lawbreakers and criminals can call the police whatever they like. Police consider where it is coming from. The problem is when decent citizens get in on the act. I am a 76 year old retired police officer and I can tell you that most of the finest people I have met in my lifetime were my fellow officers.

mimi#1

they are referred to as pigs because they are never really off duty (once a cop always a cop)and love to eat donuts never get sick of it just like pigs never get tired of eating avocadoes (once a pig can't train it to be a house pet)

El Scott

It's an old insult hurled at us by weak minded people. Name calling is a sure sign of ignorance resorted to by people who lack the ability to rationalize and argue the facts.

TonY

. The OED cites an 1811 reference to a "pig" as a Bow Street Runner--the early police force, named after the location of their headquarters, before Sir Robert Peel and the Metropolitan Police Force Before that, the term "pig" had been used as early as the mid-1500s to refer to a person who is heartily disliked.

The usage was probably confined to the criminal classes until the 1960s, when it was taken up by protestors. False explanations for the term involve the gas masks worn by the riot police in that era, or the pigs in charge of George Orwell's Animal Farm.
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If you thought the term pig arose in the 1960s, you're in for a surprise. The OED cites an 1811 reference to a "pig" as a Bow Street Runner--the early police force, named after the location of their headquarters, before Sir Robert Peel and the Metropolitan Police Force (see above.) Before that, the term "pig" had been used as early as the mid-1500s to refer to a person who is heartily disliked.

The usage was probably confined to the criminal classes until the 1960s, when it was taken up by protestors. False explanations for the term involve the gas masks worn by the riot police in that era, or the pigs in charge of George Orwell's Animal Farm.

hilton_b_2000

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Ally 2

I don't really know. But I understand it started during the hippie era of the late 1960's.

TROLL

who cares

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mexicanboy18

Honestly, I don't know. Maybe either because some of them are fat or because some people just hate cops. I guess that's why people always say "I smell bacon!" when cops are nearby. Lols!

My dad calls them perros! He's never been in trouble with the law, but he hates the cops anyways.

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ellz'STAR .

It is a lewd nickname which stemmed from the days where policemen were given free donuts by coffee shops to be present there...

..apparently :)

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