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CRIME AND CLASS: THE SUbTLE DIFFERENCES

... one end of the scale standto the protective father-figure of the bobby: and at the other end 'all coppers are bastards and the only good copper is a dead copper.' ...

Published: Friday 05 June 1959
Newspaper: Westminster & Pimlico News
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 165 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

`Let's make it four'

... four' W 1 1' 11 1 N hours of the murder of three London policemen someone in a rowdy mob of 150 youths shouted: All coppers are bastards. 1' hr e e have been done in London. Let's make it four. The police moved in and made arrests. Then, it was alleged ...

Published: Sunday 14 August 1966
Newspaper: Sunday Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 167 | Page: 36 | Tags: none

Youths in seaside after clashes with

... said that youths and girls flooding into the road were dispersed. but one group kept running up and down. shouting all coppers are bastards. Cooper was in front. waving his arms and encouraging them. Cooper told the court that he had had five pints to ...

Published: Monday 28 August 1967
Newspaper: Reading Evening Post
County: Berkshire, England
Type: | Words: 328 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

`Ziggy-zaggy' youths defied seaside police By MIRROR

... the court. Another police witness said REPORTER that one group of youngsters kept running-, up and down shouting All coppers are bastards and Let's get them. Seven youths, aged eighteen to twenty-four, were before the court variously charged with ...

Published: Tuesday 29 August 1967
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 127 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Public opinion and the police

... I think your policemen are wonderful. Ask one of the criminal fraternity his view and he is likely to answer: All coppers are bastards. Where between these two extremes does the policenan rate in public opinion? The question is an interesting one ...

Published: Friday 30 August 1968
Newspaper: East Kent Times and Mail
County: Kent, England
Type: | Words: 88 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

GANG IN NEWQUAY FRACAS

... go on their way in a lawful manner. Casterton said. Out of the way, copper. and moved on still at the head. Constable Thomas then heard I Casterton shout All coppers are bastards, and went up to him and said he was going to arrest him. Casterton pushed ...

Published: Thursday 27 November 1969
Newspaper: Cornish Guardian
County: Cornwall, England
Type: | Words: 974 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

ELECT! BIRD

... on a youth's denim jacket. The word was Acab. It meant All coppers are bastards, a court heard yesterday. The youth, Graham Van Hovston Johnson, 17, said he thought the letters meant All Canadians are bums. Johnson told magistrates at Havant, Hants: ...

Published: Wednesday 20 May 1970
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 191 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

CAMBRIDGE EVENING NEWS Monday May 25 197 PERSONAL ANNOUNCEMENTS Births Marriages Deaths In Mcnorian ..

... breach of the peace likely to be occasioned” All Coppers Are Bastards they claimed that it meant When it landed him up in the court And he uttered no single word of dissent Exept was not what he thought But ’All Chicks Are Beauts’ would have done just as ...

Published: Monday 25 May 1970
Newspaper: Cambridge Daily News
County: Cambridgeshire, England
Type: | Words: 2214 | Page: 6 | Tags: none