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Probably in opposition to the French term vache ('cow'), or for the usual featureless gaze of police officers colloquially called face de bœuf ('ox face'). Allows to call a police car an 'ox cart' (char à bœufs). [citation needed] Booked UK and US, usually after being arrested, to be taken to custody suite and held there in a cell.
[5] [25] The word cop is slang for police officer; the phrase is derived by analogy from contempt of court, which, unlike contempt of cop, is an offense in many jurisdictions (e.g., California Penal Code section 166, making contempt of court a misdemeanor). Similar to this is the phrase "disturbing the police", a play on "disturbing the peace".
Popo FC, a football club in Pakistan; Popocatépetl, an active volcano in Mexico, also called El Popo; Gen language, spoken in Togo; Phla language, spoken in Benin and Togo; Po-po or popo, slang for a police officer; Popo (Mexican beverage), an indigenous Mexican beverage, made with cocoa
The long list includes calls about suspicious activity, disturbing the peace, property damage and the alarm going off -- apparently due to trespassers.
Co-writer Jim Beavers told Taste of Country that the idea for "5-1-5-0" came about when Bentley and he were discussing Van Halen's album 5150.Beavers said that he changed the pronunciation from "fifty-one-fifty" to "five-one-five-oh", and rhymed it with "somebody call the po-po" after seeing a police car.
The Washington Post and Bowling Green University published a vividly thorough informative study about police officers who have killed people in the United States since 2005.The study found that ...
A police officer (also called a policeman (male) or policewoman (female), a cop, an officer, or less commonly a constable) is a warranted law employee of a police force. In most countries, "police officer" is a generic term not specifying a particular rank. In some, the use of the rank "officer" is legally reserved for military personnel. [1]
The federal government has struggled for years to count deaths following what police call “less-lethal force,” and the little information it collects is often kept from the public and highly ...