History Main / PolicePig

* The Air Watch, in the Literature/{{Discworld}}, is made up of Witches with a passion for flight who provide Sam Vimes with an aerial dimension. Aware of the derogatory nickname, the Air Witches have claimed NWordPrivileges for themselves and their unit badge depicts a pig in a pointy hat astride a broomstick. Of course, any civilian referring to Flying Pigs might still get a taster of Watch brutality. Read more in the works of Creator/AAPessimal, dspecifically ''Fanfic/ThePriceOfFlight''.

* The Air Watch, in the Literature/{{Discworld}}, is made up of Witches with a passion for flight who provide Sam Vimes with an aerial dimension. Aware of the derogatory nickname, the Air Witches have claimed NWordPrivileges for themselves and their unit badge depicts a pig in a pointy hat astride a broomstick. Of course, any civilian referring to Flying Pigs might still get a taster of Watch brutality. Read more in the works of Creator/AAPessimal.

[[folder: Comic Books]]

This trope is OlderThanTheyThink. The first known usage of "pig" to refer to a police officer was recorded in 1811. The 1972 animated film ''WesternAnimation/FritzTheCat'' portrayed the cops as pigs, which helped to give the term a big comeback in modern times. This term is not exclusive to the English language either; the association of pigs with police carries over to other languages as well. Just for one example, the Finnish word ''sika'' ("pig") is also used as an insult to the police.

For this reason, fiction often uses "pig/cop" as a LiteralMetaphor or VisualPun, and portrays police officers as [[PigMan anthropomorphic pigs]]. In more realistic works, cops may instead have pigs as an AnimalMotif or may have some vaguely pig-like traits. However, this isn't ''always'' used in a negative way; in some stories (such as those set in a WorldOfFunnyAnimals), a policeman may be a pig solely as a StealthPun. That being said, StealthPun examples are more likely to be seen as more neutral as opposed to outright heroic due to the negative context. However, this trope is not about simply calling the police "pigs"; the association must be strong within the work itself or at least prominently drawn attention to at some point.

* ''Literature/{{Filth}}'': The book's cover depicts a pig in a police hat, and the book itself is about a CorruptCop undergoing SanitySlippage.

* ''Literature/AnimalFarm'': Played with. The pigs aren't necessarily police but are still in high positions of authority, and turn the farm into an oppressive dictatorship, using {{Angry Guard Dog}}s to enforce their ReignOfTerror. The AcceptableTargets part of this trope is played straight, in that the pigs were meant to represent tyrannical despots such as UsefulNotes/JosefStalin, who ran the Soviet Union as a totalitarian PoliceState.