All of the sudden they're coppers?
How strange to suddenly start using the term? After not using it for the first 4 episodes at all? Or am I wrong and they're just using it way more now?
Either way, it's completely and utterly annoying.
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I first noticed it during the episode "Wild Onions." They used term coppers way too much. It is kinda annoying.
Maybe it's a Chicago thing or something, and they're trying to be more regionally accurate.
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I've been noticing them say this most of the season. I actually tweeted Shawn Ryan and asked him if coppers was a common term in Chicago, and he said the ones he spent time with used it often.
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Naaah -- somebody's jerking Ryan's chain and making a fool of him. I'm a working journalist who's lived and worked all my life in Chicago, and I've NEVER heard a cop use that word. It's an anachronistic throwback to the days of Al Capone. It's not accurate for any depiction of Chicago after 1960, if not earlier. Only somebody from Rockford could believe that slang to be currently legit.
shareA bunch of the police officers I know use the term coppers. I thought it was weird, but it's legit.
Source: The shows technical adviser and also a Chicago Cop:
http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/entertainment/chicago-code-technical-a dvisor-police-homicide-detective-john-folino-20110207
It is very annoying. This show is losing steam.
shareI have all the episodes and went back and I noticed the term copper was used in the second episode. I haven't heard it much since then, but I wasn't really listening for it.
I don't really care though, because I like the show and don't really care what terms they use.
Shining coppers on parade.
The term goes waaay back.
Ive lived in Chicago all my life, and have many friends who are "coppers", and we use the term all the time.
shareInteresting. Thanks for the info (except for the second poster, who's apparently against people asking questions).
Did anyone notice them using it from the beginning? I don't remember noticing it in the first 3 episodes and then all of the sudden, it was everywhere. It seems like they're going out of their way to use the term, which is annoying.
FWIW, I've heard the term before, but never as a sign of affection. That is, it was also used as a derisive term for police. Though, I've heard cops before (I've used that and my dad, a lawyer, uses it with his police friends).
Colvin used it again this week in the episode "Bathhouse and Hinky Dink," a reference to two corrupt First Ward aldermen early in the 20th century. And Beals's stupid half bad-Boston-Southie, half bad-Saturday-Night-Live-impression of an accent -- which is also wildly inaccurate and out of date -- was back again, too. Made me wince and want to change the channel whenever she was on. JUST STOP NOW, Jennifer!! You ought to know better.
shareisnt Beals FROM Chicago?
shareI too think it is really annoying. I am in the Northwest and have never heard the term used for real people in my life. "Cops," yes, all the time, but not "coppers." The show seems to really pile it on. Also, in regard to accents, as I said I am way over on the west side so don't know from Chicago, but do people really talk like that?
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