In my experience among the criminal element of the northeastern US, New York to Boston, the term "pig" is still firmly in place with regard to law enforcement, federal or local.
Patrick King
--- On Sun, 3/8/09, BaxDeal@aol.com <BaxDeal@aol.com> wrote:
From: BaxDeal@aol.com <BaxDeal@aol.com>
Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: The Horsemen
To: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sunday, March 8, 2009, 8:02 PM
In a message dated 3/8/09 4:50:07 PM, jacquesdebierue@ yahoo.com writes:
> > while I certainly don't know it for a fact, I wouldn't be surprised if
> said
> > police force refers to themselves by such. beats the hell out of "the
> pigs",
> > which is how I thought of the police for decades. whaddaya gonna do.
> child
> > of the 60s, yanno?
>
> But the pigs don't refer to themselves as such, an important difference (I
> don't know anything about the horsemen of Canada).
>
most of the men and women in rank and file policework these days are too
young to even remember that counter culture reference to their profession
John Lau
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