Originally Posted by
Ekdog
Thanks. I was raised by my grandfather, who was a retired cop. That's what he called himself, a cop. Why not use plain language--cop, policeman, police officer...-- instead of these strange abbreviations?
I've had cops get upset at me for calling them cops. Kind of amusing in retrospect to have the person with all the power getting all butthurt like I called them a racial slur or something. At the time though, it was a little terrifying, because I was afraid they were going to come up with something else to give me grief about other than the original reasons I was dealing with them.