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Because, particularly in west coast cities like Los Angeles, some african-americans pronounce the word Police as 'po-lice' (poe-lees), which has been shortened to 'po-po'

Alternatively, and white people can do this one too, "PO" stands for "Police Officer" and most countries have police operating in pairs, so there's two of them: po po

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