I agree. Sort of like how Clint Eastwood redefined Westerns from the cleancut western hero to a more morally ambiguous unshaven guy with a different sort of charisma.
Sergio Leone and the writers of his movies (Leone, Vincenzoni, Di Leo etc.) redefined Westerns, Clint Eastwood acted in the movies that redefined the Western genre.
You're right of course, yet I will say that Leone plus Clint Eastwood worked better than some of the other actors Leone chose, like Henry Fonda or Lee Van Cleef.
Doesn't the word 'cop' do that already? It does for me anyway.
Interestingly, in my native language (Hungarian) the word "kopó", which means a kind of hunting dog, used to be slang for a detective. I thought there maybe was some connection to "cop", but apparently it's just a coincidence.
Neither does 'Fall' (season), but in modern usage it all but guarantees the speaker is North American (or ESL and learnt it from them).
I reckon quite a few countries with English as an official language will have "cop" as a nickname for "police" - even in places where their police culture might significantly different from US police culture.
Also, in non-English speaking places, there are usually long standing slang words of similar standing, e.g "flic" in French. The evolution of police novels is multi-linglua (Wahloo / Sjowall, Simenon) so reading "cop" in english is not a dead giveaway, though I understand the point having read through the discussion.
I was going to say that, but a little googling showed me the word “cop” is not of American origin.