The Cops

[likelysuspect]

Bloody Americanisms again

Advert for Alexa or whatever it is, about a bloke expecting his family and getting his swearing out of his system. Alex thing says 'I'll play some loud music so the neighbours dont call the cops'

We dont have 'the cops' in this country we have the police

Its bad enough teens refer to 'da feds' like they're little grimy New York gangsters, we dont need grown ups using stupid terms like 'cops'.

@JustAMiddleAgedDirtBagBaby yes you are ! Where did Fuzz originate? I love this thread it’s making me smile 😄

'Babylon' for police = kind of a rasta thing (but more widely used - my brother and I say it sometimes 😂 We're very much not rastas.

@OonaStubbs Babylon sounds like something maybe Jamaican/Rastafarians might say perhaps

@OonaStubbs i call my sister Mrs Dibble because she talks as fast and relentlessly as she did on the police phone

The term "cops" has definitely been in use in the UK for a long time, and it continues to be a UK usage.

They're cops, the filth, or Plod in our house.

Happy with 'Cops & Robbers' Just don't be getting us to say Cops & Home Invasioners'

The bizzies. Also heard 5-0
Never heard feds but I know what it means
Cops is used. My ds best mate is in the police and he refers to himself and others as cops
I want to watch hot fuzz again now someone mention the fuzz - great film

In Australia we say cops or 'the jacks'

The feds annoys me but I have only ever heard it used over here by very young wannabe gangsters on the telly. See also fake Jamaican patois.
I do agree about americanisms in general.

Yes. A lot of the neighbours in Glasgow called the station a copshop, though. And not recently, either, back in Taggart days.

Definitely not just an Americanism... just finished listening to The Forgotten Dead podcast (episode six) and in an interview with a former police detective from Bolton he used the word 'cops' and in 1966 he'd been a police officer for three years... so he's not exactly going to have been influenced by American TV as much as by the colloquialisms of his career. So I'm convinced that cops (surely a shorthand for coppers) has definitely been in the UK for decades. Good podcast but the way, I recommend it.

Sorry only just saw this - no, not the 80s, I was only born in 1979. The riots were in 2011 - you must remember them:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_England_riots

But I've updated tonight in this thread because I heard someone use 'cops' in a podcast today and he was a police officer in 1966... so definitely not modern day!

That's what Eli says in Classic Emmerdale, Rozzers. Speculating you're from Yorkshire way?

Thats my point, modern americanism by then that your boss would have been using.

Wasn't my boss! And I refer you to my post before that about the podcast...

I thought this might be about the UK TV show The Cops. Which is from 1998. It was a brilliant series.

I was watching Bosch Legacy last night and all the police were referring the themselves as Coppers.