cops

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"Kids sometimes get the idea that the cops are the bad guys," he said.

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  • Not even when the cops were there doing interviews, and George told the detective he thought Casey was holding back information. —  WordPress.com News
  • The confrontation comes at a time of mounting animosity between the local precinct and Lower East Side punks, who believe the cops are arbitrarily interpreting New York law to require the bands to perform at low volume levels. —  Spinner
  • Awarded $3.8 million and the cops were acquitted, triggering the L.A. Riots resulting in 53 deaths, 2,383 injuries, more than 7,000 fires, damages to 3,100 businesses, and nearly $1 billion in financial losses?
  • When the cops shoot someone - the cops are always innocent. —  CounterPunch
  • At the end of the demo video above the narrator implores (with a chuckle) "the city has become so violent that even the cops are afraid to go out a night" - clearly the offending neighbourhoods need to have a few community centres and police stations dropped on them. —  Serial Consign
 

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  1. Also copse, < Middle English cops, < Anglo-Saxon cops, variant of cosp (= Old Saxon cosp), a shackle.
 

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