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"To protect and serve" is the motto of the LAPD. Otherwise, it's a TV trope that arose out of the fact that most television in the US comes from southern Calif
by meej 14y ago
"To protect and serve" is the motto of the LAPD. Otherwise, it's a TV trope that arose out of the fact that most television in the US comes from southern California; it has never been a generic police slogan.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StandardPoliceMotto http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StandardPoliceMot...
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SoCalization http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SoCalization
- nollidge 14y agoYour own source says it "has been adopted by many other police departments across the English-speaking world" and has "been adopted by so many police departments, in fact, that it's practically a Stock Phrase in the English-speaking world." And even if that's not true (since I'd hardly call TVTropes an authoritative source), I was using it rhetorically. I should think that regardless of its origin, that motto closely represents the ideal that we want our police agencies to uphold.