Why does the media consistenly call Cops; Police Officers? I believe, there is a big difference between a Constable and an Officer. What’s up with that? —Confused

This article appears in Aug 13-19, 2015.

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  1. They are all officers of the law, ergo police officers. Rank, such as Constable, is something completely different; “officer” is not a rank.

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  3. from wikipedia, rank is irrelevant.

    Cop or Copper
    The term Copper was the original, unshortened word, originally used in Britain to mean “someone who captures”. (In British English the term Cop is recorded (Shorter Oxford Dictionary) in the sense of ‘To Capture’ from 1704, derived from the Latin ‘Capere’ via the Old French ‘Caper’).[6] The common myth is that it’s a term referring to the police officer’s buttons which are made of copper.
    Cop derives from a Gaelic word which has the equivalence of saying, protector, leader, or chief. The terms are almost nearly homophonic but have similar meanings

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  5. FTP!!!! They aren’t there to protect anything but their jobs and pensions, using catch phrases like “heros in uniform” to defend their bloated budgets and growing membership, even though crime stats are steadily falling. Any cop that uses “carding” as a crime prevention strategy is a lazy piece of shit and should be booted off the force.

    If anyone wants to know where the safest place in HRM is, it’s the Larry Uteck, McDicks at 6:45-7:30 am. There are no less than 6 cop cars and at least one motorcycle parked there, some with their engines running while they are inside.

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