What's the difference between cops and police?

Cops


Definition:

  • (n.) The connecting crook of a harrow.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Cop rats, however, possess a single 'suppressor' gene which confers complete resistance to mammary cancer.
  • (2) Copolymer 1 (Cop 1) is a synthetic basic random copolymer of amino acids that has been shown to be effective in suppression of experimental allergic encephalomyelitis and has been proposed as a candidate drug for multiple sclerosis.
  • (3) What the hell is the point of cops looking like this?
  • (4) Instead of inevitable defeat there is uncertain cop-out.
  • (5) COP-BLAM III therapy was given to 18 patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and the therapeutic effects as well as adverse effects of the treatment were examined.
  • (6) A new electrophoretic variant of the lactate dehydrogenase B subunit was found in the erythrocytes of the COP strain of the rat.
  • (7) Three independent BFA-resistant cell lines (BER-40 from Vero cells, PtK1, and MDCK) showed cross-resistance to EDIN regarding the release of the beta-COP from the Golgi membrane by EDIN or BFA.
  • (8) I'd like to say it's all a biting satire of American military practices (I know Busty Cops Go Hawaiian certainly was) but chances are it's just about a bunch of big meanie spiders.
  • (9) He shouted “Cops Lives Matter” before being drowned out with the “Bernie” chant.
  • (10) I will ask that by [next] Saturday midday the text will be transmitted to me, the president of the COP, and at that moment everyone will know where we are and the procedure to follow.
  • (11) That’s when the police riot squad arrived, because of course you cannot set fire to a bar with cops in it.” He recalled injured protestors being treated in nearby Washington Square Park and Quakers from the local church coming to help.
  • (12) Cops were smashing people with bicycles and nightsticks."
  • (13) "We're talking about payments for news tips from cops: that's been going on a hundred years, absolutely," said Murdoch.
  • (14) We sampled a sawn-off shotgun and an assault rifle, but cops do get tasers and tear gas to add some urban flavour.
  • (15) The COP regime was the most frequently used therapeutic regimen.
  • (16) "But I can assure you, if I had known that cops were sitting in car parks, they would have been deployed pretty quickly," he said.
  • (17) "There will be a meeting of the 22 countries of the COPS [the EU's political and security committee] ... if not today then tomorrow," Kouchner told reporters in Paris.
  • (18) The FBI’s “justifiable homicides” database is considered the best measure of cop killings in the US, but even the attorney general, Eric Holder, called the lack of comprehensive numbers “unacceptable” last month .
  • (19) More than 60 officers, who might be investigating a burglary in your street, are zealously pursuing other cops and public officials who may, or may not, have taken bungs from Sun journalists in return for information.
  • (20) I heard him say to another cop: “I don’t even know why they told me to lock this guy up.

Police


Definition:

  • (n.) A judicial and executive system, for the government of a city, town, or district, for the preservation of rights, order, cleanliness, health, etc., and for the enforcement of the laws and prevention of crime; the administration of the laws and regulations of a city, incorporated town, or borough.
  • (n.) That which concerns the order of the community; the internal regulation of a state.
  • (n.) The organized body of civil officers in a city, town, or district, whose particular duties are the preservation of good order, the prevention and detection of crime, and the enforcement of the laws.
  • (n.) Military police, the body of soldiers detailed to preserve civil order and attend to sanitary arrangements in a camp or garrison.
  • (n.) The cleaning of a camp or garrison, or the state / a camp as to cleanliness.
  • (v. t.) To keep in order by police.
  • (v. t.) To make clean; as, to police a camp.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Villagers, including one man who has been left disabled and the relatives of six men who were killed, are suing ABG in the UK high court, represented by British law firm Leigh Day, alleging that Tanzanian police officers shot unarmed locals.
  • (2) There will be no statutory inquiry or independent review into the notorious clash between police and miners at Orgreave on 18 June 1984 , the home secretary, Amber Rudd, has announced.
  • (3) DI James Faulkner of Great Manchester police said: “The men and women working in the factory have told us that they were subjected to physical and verbal assaults at the hands of their employers and forced to work more than 80-hours before ending up with around £25 for their week’s work.
  • (4) Despite a 10-year deadline to have the same number of ethnic minority officers in the ranks as in the populations they serve, the target was missed and police are thousands of officers short.
  • (5) As May delivered her statement in the chamber, police helicopters hovered overhead and a police cordon remained in place around Westminster, but MPs from across the political spectrum were determined to show that they were continuing with business as usual.
  • (6) "The proposed 'reform' is designed to legitimise this blatantly unfair, police state practice, while leaving the rest of the criminal procedure law as misleading decoration," said Professor Jerome Cohen, an expert on China at New York University's School of Law.
  • (7) In Essex, police are putting on extra patrols during and after England's first match and placing domestic violence intelligence teams in police control rooms.
  • (8) "We do not yet live in a society where the police or any other officers of the law are entitled to detain people without reasonable justification and demand their papers," Gardiner wrote.
  • (9) They were protecting the sit-in because they believed that, if they left, the police would follow them."
  • (10) There are widespread examples across the US of the police routinely neglecting crimes of sexual violence and refusing to believe victims.
  • (11) I hope I can play a major part in really highlighting the need for far more extensive family violence training within all organisations that deal with women and children, including the police and the department of human services,” Batty said.
  • (12) Even if it were not the case that police use a variety of tricks to keep recorded crime figures low, this data would still represent an almost meaningless measure of the extent of crime in society, for the simple reason that a huge proportion of crimes (of almost all sorts) have always gone unreported.
  • (13) An official inquiry into the Rotherham abuse scandal blamed failings by Rotherham council and South Yorkshire police.
  • (14) A tall young Border Police officer stopped me, his rifle cradled in his arms.
  • (15) The matter is now in the hands of the Guernsey police and the law officers.” One resident who is a constant target of the paper and has complained to police, Rosie Guille, said the allegations had a “huge impact on morale” on the island.
  • (16) It can also solve a lot of problems – period.” However, Trump did not support making the officer-worn video cameras mandatory across the country, as the Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton has done , noting “different police departments feel different ways”.
  • (17) During the couple's 30-year marriage she had twice reported him to the police for grabbing her by the throat, before they divorced in 2005.
  • (18) There's a massive police station there, and they couldn't do anything.
  • (19) Hoare was subsequently interviewed under caution by the Metropolitan police.
  • (20) Another, discussing public attitudes towards the police, said: "I've lost count of [the number of] people who said: 'It's only cos you've got a uniform … if you didn't have the uniform on, I'd come and fuck you and this, that and the other … I hope your wife dies of cancer and your kids die of cancer.'"