{"id":5144,"date":"2014-06-30T08:46:05","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T07:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/?p=5144"},"modified":"2014-06-30T18:15:50","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T17:15:50","slug":"cop-word-origin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/cop-word-origin\/","title":{"rendered":"Cop &#8211; Word Origin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Cop &#8211; word origin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The identifier &#8222;<strong>Cop<\/strong>&#8220; for a police officer is ubiquitious in US-TV-crime shows. Not all watchers, however, may know what it acutally stands for.<a href=\"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/liftarn_Old_police_baton.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5145 alignright\" alt=\"liftarn_Old_police_baton\" src=\"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/liftarn_Old_police_baton.png\" width=\"158\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/liftarn_Old_police_baton.png 158w, https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/liftarn_Old_police_baton-11x20.png 11w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 158px) 100vw, 158px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The term Cop is an abbreviation for &#8222;<em>constable of peace<\/em>&#8222;. The word &#8222;<em>constable<\/em>&#8220; itself has Latin roots meaning something like &#8222;<em>the guy with the stick<\/em>&#8222;. (cum stabulum)<br \/>\n<em>Stick<\/em> referring to a <em>policeman&#8217;s baton<\/em> which in UK still is the only weapon to enforce law and order. In the US, however, nowadays it doesn&#8217;t serve much more than as a symbol of power.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/openclipart.org\/image\/300px\/svg_to_png\/1044\/liftarn_Old_police_baton.png\">picture:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cop &#8211; word origin The identifier &#8222;Cop&#8220; for a police officer is ubiquitious in US-TV-crime shows. Not all watchers, however, may know what it acutally stands for. The term Cop is an abbreviation for &#8222;constable of peace&#8222;. The word &#8222;constable&#8220; itself has Latin roots meaning something like &#8222;the guy with the stick&#8222;. (cum stabulum) Stick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5144"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5153,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5144\/revisions\/5153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}