![]() I've been told that cops in the UK do it, too. Even Urban Dictionary contains an entry on the "copstache." Movie cops more often than not have them. What is clear however, is the ubiquitous nature of the cop mustache. I'm not sure if any of those origins of the cop mustache are correct, or perhaps all of them are to some extent. I've also heard this last one linked to the entrance of females into our profession in the late 60's and early 70's, the claim being that the mustache was a way to establish a sort of "men's club" excluding the women, since the women (well, most of them) couldn't grow a mustache. I've heard that mustaches are a claim to our manliness that in the rough-and-tumble profession of law enforcement the mustache is a visible indicator of our testosterone. (Insert eye-roll emoji here.) I've read that it's a hold back from the old west when our gun-slinging forefathers wore mustaches, and also read that perhaps the mustache was designed to hide the snarl (or smile) on our upper lips. Of course, the firefighters like to chime in that cops just want to look like our heroes, the fireman. ![]() One oft-repeated claim is that since cops (generally) aren't allowed to grow beards, a mustache becomes a close second. There are plenty of theories as to why so many cops grow mustaches. But all around me as I cut my teeth in law enforcement there were these mustaches. I mean, I've tried to grow mustaches before, but they always end up looking like the quintessential 70's gay porn star mustache. "Never trust a cop who doesn't have a mustache", I heard one of my very first sergeants say.
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