Why are cops called pigs?

Police - pigs
Back in 1809, Sir Robert Peel entered the House of Commons in London - he developed a passion for Sandy Back pigs found in Ireland and began to breed them in Tamworth. Soon, these pigs were known as Tamworth pigs. Pig slang was commonplace in Tamworth because of this, it was in 1829 that the relation to police came into it.
Politicians were concerned about the way London was policed and Sir Robert Peel changed things - his changes resulted in the formation of the Metropolitan Police. This is why police are referred to as 'Bobbies' or 'Peelers'; they were Bobby's boys...
Due to the pig nature that Tamworth had become, the police suffered the same fate as other Tamworth products did: They became related to pigs.


Starting in August 1968 and for a number of years afterwards, police officers were called pigs by young people, the disenchanted and even the media. This came about when a group who called themselves the Yippies, protested near the 1968 National Democratic Convention in Chicago. They had a small pig as their presidential candidate, and when police disrupted their demonstration, they started to call the police pigs. The expression caught on. Years later, the radical leaders of the Yippies became mainstream and calling police "pigs" drifted into the past

just two reasons i found on the internet. there will be loads more though

I don't call them that.

However, if it happens it can stand for Pride, Integrity, Guts.

In Scotland we call them "the filth"

Acronym for Patience, Integrity, Guts. +3

Do you know why cops are called cops. Because of the copper badges they wear or wore. Copper itself comes from Cyprus, where it was mined.

I think it's because they're all dirty and they live off trash. Plus most of them are fat, and they make funny nasal throat sounds like growling.

police in gang suits
police internal guard streets

Pig is slang now for "Police In Getto". a lookout in a drug area will call out PIG! or PIGS! to the dealer to warn of police in the area.

Probing Intolerant Gestapo Scum=PIGS