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As a counterpoint, I grew up with McGruff the Crime Dog, which is still used today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGruff_the_Crime_Dog https://en.wikipedia.or

As a counterpoint, I grew up with McGruff the Crime Dog, which is still used today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGruff_the_Crime_Dog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGruff_the_Crime_Dog Also worth noting that K9 Units are heavily utilized by police https://www.police.gov.hk/ppp_en/11_useful_info/pdu/index.html https://www.police.gov.hk/ppp_en/11_useful_info/pdu/index.ht... There is a historical precedent of that association.

nneonneo 7y ago
“It’s totally ok, dogs are police too” doesn’t quite work in a culture where dogs are often invoked as insult words. There’s a different cultural context here that you need to be aware of. As I said, the American equivalent would probably be to use a little pig emoji for a police officer, which I doubt would go over well here. It’s not by a stretch the most controversial aspect of the app, but it doesn’t really help their case much.
k_sze 7y ago
The policeman emoji also exists for a reason.