POLAC

I doubt that the organisation is going to be terribly concerned that you arrive at that call thirty seconds later than you would have done otherwise but can be pretty sure that they would have something to say had you smashed up your police car on the way there. I doubt also that CPS would be satisfied with the defence of '...It was my first night duty … and I was rather tired...' after your high profile POLAC gets splashed all over the national newspapers and television news.

2019, Darren Moor, How To Survive Your Police Career, Troubador Publishing, →ISBN:

And it really brought it home to me when I was involved in my own POLAC (police accident) in March 2012.

2015 January 14, Jessica Davies, “Pc moved into office role 'after telling bosses blue-flashing lights on police cars don't work'”, in The Telegraph:

First, a woman goes missing, and leaves her things and a mysterious note in her car. Now a POLAC with a DCI in the passenger seat.

2015, Martin Edwards, The Dungeon House, Allison & Busby, →ISBN:

When you have an at fault POLAC on camera!

2018 February 1, StopFightingTheDog, “That moment you have a POLAC . . . in the middle of the day in town . . . whilst being recorded for a television programme”, in Reddit, r/PoliceUK:

(UK, law enforcement) Alternative letter-case form of polac


POLAC

(Nigeria, law enforcement) The Police Academy of Nigeria.


stick on

en-verb

stick on (third-person singular simple present sticks someone on, present participle sticking someone on, simple past and past participle stuck someone on)

sticks someone on (present singular third-person)
sticking someone on (participle present)
stuck someone on (participle past)
stuck someone on (past)

[…] took him to the nick, stuck him on, and he spent the night in the flowery.

1931, The Police Journal, volume 4, page 501:

You can be stuck on for anything from serious misconduct to minor infringements of the police's absurdly draconian and catch-all disciplinary codes, which make it possible for a senior officer with a grudge against a junior to stick him on for almost anything. For example, the PC may have been caught slipping unobtrusively into a restaurant or pub on his ground to scrounge […] a drink or a meal.

1995, Verbatim, volume 22, number 3, page 13:

But because you're under pressure for numbers and it looks good on your report that you done x number of processes, you can't come in and say 'Well, I didn't stick him on because I felt that it was a better result just to tell him off.'

quoted in 2005, Mike McConville, Dan Shepherd, Watching Police, Watching Communities (page 200)

(transitive, UK, law enforcement, slang) To charge (someone) with an offence.


gas meter bandit

en-noun

gas meter bandit (plural gas meter bandits)

We might not have had that much to pinch, but they'd still have your brass candlesticks off the mantelpiece. There's always wrong 'uns, in every walk of life, who'll have whatever you've got from under your nose. Bloody gas-meter bandits, […]

2000, Gilda O'Neill, My East End: Memories of Life in Cockney London:

At the lowest end of the scale are petty criminals, shoplifters, sneak thieves, joyriders, muggers (or 'street robbers', as they are now called) and gas-meter bandits. Up a step are burglars, car thieves, fraudsters and drug dealers.

Fucking gas-meter bandits, thought Billy. Some fucking gang. I'm stuck with a couple of gas-meter bandits. Stan and his nagging missus. His non-existent job that he's never late for.

(chiefly British, slang) A small-time thief.


gate fever

(colloquial) The anxious excitement felt by a prisoner whose release is imminent.


gate-happy

en-adj

gate-happy (comparative more gate-happy, superlative most gate-happy)

more gate-happy (comparative)
most gate-happy (superlative)

(colloquial) Excited about one's imminent release from prison.


dawn raid

(law enforcement) An early-morning visit by police or law enforcement with the intention of taking the suspects by surprise.


harman

Harman is a common compound in several foods, plants and beverages. Numerous studies have demonstrated its mutagenic, co-mutagenic and carcinogenic effects; however, the exact mechanism has not been fully identified.

2010, El Gendy MA, El-Kadi AO, Harman induces CYP1A1 enzyme through an aryl hydrocarbon receptor mechanism., Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology, page 55

(organic chemistry) An indole alkaloid, 1-methyl-9H-β-carboline (C12H10N2) found in several foods, plants and beverages which is carcinogen. It is a specific, reversible inhibitor of monoamine oxidase A.


PIT maneuver

(law enforcement, automotive) A technique in which a pursuing car bumps the rear fender of a pursued car, causing it to spin out, in order to terminate a car chase.


dog handler

A person trained to handle a dog, especially a police dog or a K-9 unit in the military


GOA

(US, law enforcement) Initialism of gone on arrival. where the intended target was not present at the location that was sought when an agent arrived


serial rapist

(criminology) Someone who commits multiple rapes, whether with multiple victims or a single victim repeatedly over a period of time.


red notice

Interpol issues red notice for 'fugitive' Anne Sacoolas

Under a red notice, local authorities make the arrests on behalf of the country that requested it. The notices cannot force countries to arrest or extradite suspects, but can put government leaders on the spot and limit suspects' travel.

June 29, 2020, “Iran issues arrest warrant for Trump, asks Interpol to help”, in Al Jazeera:

(law enforcement) A notice from Interpol that a person is an international fugitive and should be arrested.


jackboy

We ducked and dodged law, and jackboys, only to hand our hard earned cash over to another hustler; a hustler greater than us.

Ordell asked one of his jackboys to get him a car with keys in it and leave it in the Ocean Mall parking lot over by the beach. The jackboy asked him what kind of car he wanted. Ordell said, 'One has a big trunk with a shotgun in it.' He liked jackboys because they were crazy. They made their living ripping off street dealers for their blow and change and busting into crack houses with assault weapons.

"Get you stupid ass over there by the chip display and don't move," the robber instructed as he positioned himself to where he could see both David and Nicole with minimal movement. That act alone let David know the guy in the Oakland Raiders pullover was an experienced jackboy.

2014, Antonio David Hart, Chess Game of the Gods:

A street thug who is part of a gang of thieves.


fingerprint powder

en-noun

fingerprint powder (plural fingerprint powders)

The stairs were dusted with fingerprint powder, and immediately, a clear impression of a running shoe was evident.

2001, Forensic Files, "Frozen Evidence" (season 6, episode 8)

(criminology) Any fine powder used in dusting for fingerprints by crime scene investigators and others in law enforcement.


confessing Sam

The first potentially believable confessing Sam, Daniel Voorhees, arrived at police headquarters on the same day as the second note from The Avenger. During an interview with LAPD Consulting Psychiatrist Dr. Paul De River, Voorhess ^([sic]) claimed that he "couldn't stand [keeping such a dark secret] any longer." The police knew that Voorhees was not The Avenger […]

2017, Jon Lewis, Hard-Boiled Hollywood: Crime and Punishment in Postwar Los Angeles, page 27:

(Canada, US, law enforcement slang) A person who falsely confesses to a crime.


CPD

“Defendant Officers violated numerous laws and CPD policies during their encounter with Dexter. The initial stop was unlawful and pretextual. Defendant Officers had no reasonable suspicion that Dexter violated any law, and they falsely stated otherwise in official CPD reports,” the suit states.

2024 April 24, Family of Chicago man fatally shot by police files federal civil rights lawsuit against city and tactical officers, CNN:

Chicago Police Department
w:Chicago Police Department

(law enforcement) Initialism of Chicago Police Department.


police lives matter

Coined in analogy to black lives matter.

black lives matter
black lives matter#English

(US, politics, law enforcement) A phrase used to counter "black lives matter", rallying people to defend police officers and their use of lethal force in carrying out their duties.


blue lives matter

Coined in analogy to black lives matter; the color blue is frequently used for police uniforms.

police lives matter
police lives matter#English

(US, law enforcement, politics) Synonym of police lives matter


plainclothesperson

plainclothesperson (plural plainclothespersons or plainclothespeople)

plainclothespersons (plural)
plainclothespeople (plural)

(rare) A police officer (especially a detective) of any gender who wears civilian clothes when on duty.


police work

The complement will consist of 290 persons, and these cruisers should prove valuable additions to our service, especially in the line of police-work—the peace time duty of most of our ships not assigned for manœuvres.

1899, Carl Schurz, George Brinton McClellan Harvey, George William Curtis, Henry Loomis Nelson, Henry Mills Alden, John Bonner, John Foord, John Kendrick Bangs, Montgomery Schuyler, Norman Hapgood, Richard Harding Davis, Samuel Stillman Conant (editors), Harper's Weekly, page 1090:

Many who are unfamiliar with real police work little realize the extent to which police science has developed.

1927, National Probation Association (U.S.), Annual Report and Proceedings of the Annual Conference, Volume 21, page 243:

All the ordinary developments in telecommunications can be applied to police work.

1951, Anthony K. Martienssen, Crime and the Police, page 96:

White officers were more likely to select skilled or other protective service positions (such as fireman) as a preferred employment at the time they entered police work.

1967, Albert J. Reiss, Donald J. Black, Studies in Crime and Law Enforcement in Major Metropolitan Areas: Patterns of Behavior in Police and Citizen Transactions, page 16:

Many puzzling aspects of police work fall into place when one ceases to look at it as primarily concerned with law enforcement and crime control, and only incidentally and and often incongruously concerned with an infinite variety of other matters.

1980, Susan Ehrlich Martin, Breaking and Entering, Policewomen on Patrol, page 81:

As a result, there exists little or no transparency in police work at the station house level.

1999, James Vadackumchery, Indian Police and Equal Justice Under Law, page 160:

That's not a bad motto for police work overall, he thought. A vain and arbitrary search for a needle in a haystack, that's exactly what it always seemed to be like.

2012, Håkan Nesser, Münster's Case, An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery:

(law enforcement) Work performed by police; the investigation of criminal activities.


mafiya

Borrowed from Russian ма́фия (máfija), from Italian mafia. Doublet of mafia.


pretextual stop

pretextual stop (plural pretextual stops)

(US) The stopping by police of a motor vehicle in the case of a minor infringement of the law, in order to investigate other suspected criminal activity.


Jordan rule

From the defendant, Barrett Richard Jordan, in the Canadian criminal court case, known as R v Jordan, whose resolution, the ruling decision, that established the rule.

(Canada, crime, law, politics, constitution, human rights) A rule about how long criminal court cases can take, and when exceeding the determined limit, is considered excessive and violating constitutional rights, and thus the criminal proceedings are summarily terminated with no recourse, and the defendant released. The limit of 18 or 30 months from placing criminal charges to trial is established in the rule.

crime; constitution; human rights; crime; constitution; human rights


LWOP

In two of these studies, LWOP inmates had rates of prison misconduct that were equivalent to parole-eligible inmates.

2008, Matt DeLisi, Peter John Conis, Violent Offenders: Theory, Research, Public Policy, and Practice, Jones & Bartlett Learning, →ISBN, page 244:

(criminal law) Initialism of life (sentence) without (the possibility of) parole.


SLED

(US, law enforcement) Abbreviation of South Carolina Law Enforcement Division.


have a visual on

en-verb

have a visual on (third-person singular simple present has a visual on, present participle having a visual on, simple past and past participle had a visual on)

has a visual on (present singular third-person)
having a visual on (participle present)
had a visual on (participle past)
had a visual on (past)

“We have a visual on you,” the pilot of Gopher Alpha stated, ...

2012, Robert G. Davis, Ten Short Mysteries, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 102:

“Hey, partner, where the hell's your twenty? I should have a visual on you by now and I' m overdue to begin my rounds.”

2004, Michael Pinchot, Panamanian Tundra, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 157:

“This is Alpha Sky Four. I have a visual on the suspect running east on Hudson Avenue.

2012, Sherard H. Adams, The Prince of Pentium: A Life of a Hustler and a Computer Hacker, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 25:

(transitive, law enforcement and military) see


Nampol

(Namibia, law enforcement) The Namibian Police Force.


crime science

(criminology) The study of crime in order to find ways to prevent it.


crime scientist

en-noun

crime scientist (plural crime scientists)

(criminology) Someone who studies crime science, especially someone who does so professionally.


criminal scientist

criminal scientist (plural criminal scientists)

(criminology) Synonym of crime scientist


gang war

gang war (countable and uncountable, plural gang wars)

A conflict or feuding between two or more gangs (criminal groups).


OMON

From Russian ОМО́Н (OMÓN), Отря́д Ми́лиции Осо́бого Назначе́ния (Otrjád Mílicii Osóbovo Naznačénija, “detachment of special-purpose police”).

Special Purpose Mobile Unit, the riot police in Russia and Belarus.

АМА́П

Special Purpose Mobile Unit, a law enforcement force in Russia and Belarus


judicial police

A type of police reporting to the judiciary, or responsible for certain criminal investigations


DVE

(US, law enforcement) Abbreviation of domestic violent extremist.


HVE

(US, law enforcement) Abbreviation of homegrown violent extremist.


bent copper

From bent (“not straight, corrupt, dishonest”) + copper (“policeman”), a variant of cop. It could also be a pun taken from a bent copper coin.

Onay remembered that he had placed 40 kilos at the bottom of his wardrobe. That meant approximately three and a half kilos had disappeared during the police raid. Bulent kept quiet but the officers eventually found out and a bent copper was later blamed for the alleged theft.

2007, Graham Johnson, Druglord, Mainstream Publishing, →ISBN:

Anticorruption is a double-edged sword. We need to find just enough bent coppers to avoid accusations of a cover-up, but not so many that the public starts to wonder if the police can be trusted.

2016 April 28, “Getting to the Truth”, in Line of Duty, season 3, episode 6, spoken by Gill Biggeloe (Polly Walker), archived from the original on 2021-05-17:

He had always been a bent copper. He had joined the police force with the intention of being a bent copper. In that, he had been eminently successful.

2019, Alan Jacobs, Me? I Kill People, Troubador Publishing, →ISBN, page 298:

(UK, informal, law enforcement) A corrupt police officer.


slaughterbot

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-slaughterbot.wav

(science fiction) Synonym of killbot (“robot designed for killing”)


CHIS

(UK, law enforcement) Initialism of covert human intelligence source.


ultima ratio

Since punishment (including death and prison in the United States) is the harshest type of public measure or burden that the state may take or impose against an individual and the state has the duty to consider the rights and interests of all people involved or affected by a situation (including those who cause harm), the ultima ratio principle requires that less harmful responses or measures, including noncriminal ones, be adopted if those responses or measures would adequately advance a legitimate goal such as addressing harmful behavior.

2020, Máximo Langer, “Penal Abolitionism and Criminal Law Minimalism: Here and There, Now and Then”, in Harvard Law Review, volume 134, number 42, page 73:

(law) legal philosophy under which penal redress to crime should only be used as a measure of last resort


legal cynicism

Sampson and Bartusch measure legal cynicism using five variables designed to assess general beliefs about the legitimacy of law and social norms.

2006, James W. Burfeind, Juvenile Delinquency: An Integrated Approach, page 488:

(law) A perspective under which criminal law and law enforcement are seen as unresponsive or indifferent to public safety, and instead serve primarily to exclude disfavored communities from society.


hitperson

hitperson (plural hitpersons or hitpeople)


false imprisonment

false imprisonment (countable and uncountable, plural false imprisonments)

(law) The intentional restriction of a person's movement within any area without legal authority, justification, or the restrained person's permission.


charge sheet

A record kept by the police, notionally on a sheet of paper, stating the criminal offence(s) which a suspect is charged with (accused of committing).


desk sergeant

A woman ran into the police station and told the desk sergeant she had been robbed.

After arriving at the Area A police station, I renewed my protests that as a working reporter with visible police credentials, I should not have been arrested. The desk sergeant insisted that I be booked, however, and I was put into the holding tank, a fifteen-by-fifteen dark and filthy cell, with 49 other people.

1983 December 24, Larry Goldsmith, “Cops Bust 70 Anti-Nuke Demonstrators”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 23, page 6:

(law enforcement) A sergeant who has an administrative position inside of a police station.


megafraud

megafraud (countable and uncountable, plural megafrauds)


disorderly conduct

(law, criminology) The criminal offence of misbehaving in a public place, for example, by being drunk or loitering.


hit a lick

en-verb

hit a lick (third-person singular simple present hits a lick, present participle hitting a lick or hittin' a lick, simple past and past participle hit a lick)

hits a lick (present singular third-person)
hitting a lick (participle present)
hittin' a lick (participle present)
hit a lick (participle past)
hit a lick (past)

In its basic meaning, a reference to a robbery of a liquor store.

I figure frauds never hit a lick before
 So they don't know the feeling when them things get across

2007, “Roc Boys (And the Winner Is)…”, in American Gangster, performed by Jay-Z:

Fucked my first bitch, passed her to my nigga
 Hit my first lick, passed with my nigga

2014, “My Nigga”, in My Krazy Life, performed by YG:

Listen up I'm about to go and get rich
 Fuck with me my nigga
 We gon' circle round the Ville and hit a lick

2014, “A Tale of 2 Citiez”, in 2014 Forest Hills Drive, performed by J. Cole:

Oh shit, the Pharaoh finna trip again
If I ever go broke I'm hitting licks again
It ain't shit for me to strip a man
Back in high school I used to get it in

2016 January 15, “Get It In (Remix)”, performed by Nef the Pharaoh, 4:13–4:23:

Not banging them clicks and hitting them licks
I'm probably in uptown fucking your bitch
I love these bands, I can't go lidge, Imma scam, trap, or hit them licks

2021 August 17, “London Scammer (Remix)”performed by Tankz ft. Tarm, 2:17:

(African-American Vernacular, MLE) To earn a large sum of money in a short amount of time, usually illegally.


tough on crime

en-adj

tough on crime (comparative more tough on crime, superlative most tough on crime)

more tough on crime (comparative)
most tough on crime (superlative)

Biden will face skepticism from reform advocates critical of his role championing tough on crime legislation that had a disproportionate impact on low income communities and communities of color.

2020 December 14, Candice Norwood, Daniel Bush, “What a Biden administration could mean for criminal justice reform”, in PBS Newshour:

That establishes stricter criminal penalties, especially as a reaction to violent and property crime.


penal populism

(law) A process in which the major political parties compete with each other to be tough on crime.


VPD

Police Department
police department#English

(law enforcement) Initialism of Vancouver Police Department.

(Canada) The police service of the city of Vancouver, in British Columbia, Canada.

(US) The police service of the city of Vancouver, in the State of Washington, USA.


rubber heels

[…] Going in to do the work of the Rubber Heels.'
She asked what the Rubber Heels were, when they were at home.
'The Rubber Heels, heart, are the police investigation department. […]

2003, John E. Gardner, The Streets of Town, page 14:

[…] their programme may actually have served to enhance the attractiveness and legitimacy of CIB work, a job much reviled in the heyday of The Sweeney when the 'rubber-heels' brigade of A10 were portrayed as yet another hurdle in the pursuit of villains and justice.

2012, Frank Leishman, Paul Mason, Policing and the Media, page 147:

(UK, dated, informal) Police officers tasked with investigating corruption within the police force.


house of detention

en-noun

house of detention (plural houses of detention)

Mama looked down and spit on the ground / Every time my name gets mentioned / The papa say "Oy, if I get that boy / I'm gonna stick him in the house of detention"

1972, Paul Simon (lyrics and music), “Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard”, in Paul Simon:


arsonical

He cleared out the coals from under the staircase, built a neat fire of firewood and paper there, he splashed about paraffine and arranged the lamps and can even as he had designed, and made a fine inflammable pile of things in the little parlour behind the shop. “Looks pretty arsonical,” he said as he surveyed it all.

1909, H. G. Wells, chapter 8, in The History of Mr Polly, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, page 214:

1978, Jan Morris, Farewell the Trumpets, New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Part 2, Chapter 18, p. 393,
In Cyprus he must deal with Greeks and Turks whose methods of debate were murderous or arsonical.

Of or relating to arson (the crime of deliberately starting a fire with intent to cause damage).


focused deterrence

A crime prevention strategy which aims to deter crime by implementing a mix of law enforcement, social services, and community mobilization.


prisonization

prisonization (usually uncountable, plural prisonizations)

The process of assimilation to the customs, social norms, etc. of a prison.


nonjailable

The heart of Gail Atwater’s civil rights claim was that going to jail for a nonjailable offense should be a presumptively unreasonable seizure under the Fourth Amendment.

2020, Alexandra Natapoff, “Atwater and the Misdemeanor Carceral State”, in Harvard Law Review, volume 133, number 147, page 157:


incarcerative

Misdemeanor appeals are rare for a variety of reasons, including lack of access to counsel, high plea rates, and the typically short duration of incarcerative sentences.

2020, Alexandra Natapoff, “Atwater and the Misdemeanor Carceral State”, in Harvard Law Review, volume 133, number 147, page 161:


overpolice

en-verb

overpolice (third-person singular simple present overpolices, present participle overpolicing, simple past and past participle overpoliced)

overpolices (present singular third-person)
overpolicing (participle present)
overpoliced (participle past)
overpoliced (past)

First, many veterans of protest marches believe that the police overpolice these events. Second, why are the police still willing to protect a St. Patrick's Day Parade if security concerns and costs are suddenly so important?

2003 February 15, “The Fundamental Right to March”, in The New York Times:

Black people in America fit that description of being overpoliced and oversentenced.

2016 January 7, Cory Doctorow, “White House plan to use data to shrink prison populations could be a racist dumpster fire”, in Boing Boing:

Part of the difference in attitudes comes from African Americans’ experiences within a racially biased criminal justice system that overpolices black and brown neighborhoods and rarely holds officers accountable for reported mistreatment, excessive force, or even killing African Americans.

2016 August 5, Victoria M. Massie, “Cops don’t need to hand out ice cream. They need to end racist policing practices.”, in Vox:

So if you live in a zip code that has been overpoliced historically, you are going to have overarresting. And we know that the overpolicing and the overarresting happens in Black and Latino communities. That's just a fact.

2023 July 19, Brianna Scott, Ailsa Chang, Jeanette Woods, “How AI could perpetuate racism, sexism and other biases in society”, in NPR:

(transitive) To police too much, as by patrolling a neighborhood excessively or meting out a punishment incommensurate to the severity of a crime.


on the beat

bobby on the beat

From midsize departments like the one in Indianapolis to big-city forces like New York City's, from top commanders to officers on the beat, police officers nationwide were unprepared to calm the summer's unrest, and their approaches consistently did the opposite.

2021 March 20, Kim Barker, Mike Baker, Ali Watkins, “In City After City, Police Completely Mishandled Black Lives Matter Protests”, in The New York Times:

(law enforcement) Of a police officer: patrolling his or her assigned area; on duty.


command and control

"American police simply were not prepared for the challenge that they faced in terms of planning, logistics, training and police command-and-control supervision," said Chuck Wexler, the executive director of the Police Executive Research Forum, a nonprofit that advises departments on management and tactics.

(military, law enforcement) The management and logistics of a military or paramilitary force.


prison farm

correctional facility
correctional facility

A large correctional facility in which convicts are forced to do manual labor, largely in open air.


field stop

(law enforcement) An on the ground stop made by a police officer.


transformative justice

(crime) A series of practices and philosophies aimed at rehabilitating perpetrators of crime, especially of interpersonal violence.


OCCB

(New York, law enforcement) Initialism of organized crime control bureau. of the New York Police Department


insurance fire

The other fifty-four cases were insurance fires, that is the motive was that of burning to collect insurance.

1921, Office of the Fire Marshal of the State of Louisiana, Annual Report - Volumes 17-35, page 7:

A more likely theory is that it was an insurance fire, as the Bennett brothers were in financial trouble...

2009, Jessie Munro, The Story of Suzanne Aubert, page 419:

Most of the people thought it was an insurance fire, that Aronez or someone hired by him had set it.

2012, David Holmberg, The Tinderbox, page 87:

They're even hinting that the loss of our Ingleside printing plant was an insurance fire, for God's sake!

2016, Stephen Birmingham, The Rothman Scandal, page 619:

(law) A form of arson in which a fire is intentionally started in order to enable collection from an insurance policy that protects against accidental fires.


rule of engagement

en-noun

rule of engagement (plural rules of engagement)

The military, which acknowledged that the killings violated its rules of engagement, announced the deaths on Friday, hours after saying it had recovered the bodies of three other Israeli hostages in Gaza.

2023 December 16, Aaron Boxerman, Ben Hubbard, Thomas Fuller, “Israel Says 3 Hostages Bore White Flag Before Being Killed by Troops”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(military, law enforcement, chiefly in the plural) An internal rule among a military, police, etc. force defining the circumstances in which and manner with which to use force.


pain compliance

The use of painful stimulus to control a subject, including the use of pressure on painful areas, hyperextension or hyperflexion, weapons, or chemical irritants.


crime wave

“A small minority has tried to weaponize this tragedy to advance a narrative about a crime wave that just isn’t borne out by the data in San Francisco,” Kevin Benedicto, a police commissioner and lawyer, said on Thursday.

2023 April 7, Kate Conger, Shawn Hubler, quoting Kevin Benedicto, “Stabbing of Cash App Creator Raises Alarm, and Claims of ‘Lawless’ San Francisco”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:


heat of passion

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-heat of passion.wav

(law) An outburst of anger that leads one to commit a criminal act, and is itself influenced by preceding events that might cause a reasonable person to lose self control.


positional asphyxia

A form of asphyxia which occurs when one's position prevents them from breathing adequately.


crisis intervention

crisis intervention (plural crisis interventions)

A time-limited intervention with a specific psychotherapeutic approach to immediately stabilize those in emotional crisis.


VIW

VIW (countable and uncountable, plural VIWs)

(law enforcement) Abbreviation of victim/informant/witness.


correctional center

correctional center (plural correctional centers)

(formal, euphemistic) A prison, reformatory, or similar institution in which people are confined for the purpose of punishment and/or social rehabilitation.


corrections center

corrections center (plural corrections centers)

correctional center
correctional center#English

(formal, euphemistic) Alternative form of correctional center.


correction center

correction center (plural correction centers)


corrections centre

corrections centre (plural corrections centres)

(Commonwealth, formal, euphemistic) Alternative form of correctional center.


correction centre

correction centre (plural correction centres)


correctional centre

correctional centre (plural correctional centres)


state capture

Among his more notable and criticized decisions was declining to charge officials linked to allegations of state capture by the Guptas, an Indian business family with close ties to Mr. Zuma.

2018 August 13, Kimon de Greef, “Ouster of Zuma Loyalist Bolsters South Africa’s Corruption Fight”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

A type of systemic political corruption in which a small number of private businesses influence government policy to their own advantage.


TSG

tactical support group
tactical support group#English

(UK, law enforcement) Initialism of tactical support group.


follow the money

en-verb

follow the money (third-person singular simple present follows the money, present participle following the money, simple past and past participle followed the money)

follows the money (present singular third-person)
following the money (participle present)
followed the money (participle past)
followed the money (past)

Popularized in All the President's Men (1976).

No, I have to do this my way. You tell me what you know, and I'll confirm. I'll keep you in the right direction if I can, but that's all. Just… follow the money.

1976, William Goldman, All the President's Men, spoken by Deep Throat:

Then follow the money: We know that President Bashar Assad turned an ophthalmologist's blind eye to Saddam's use of the Syrian port of Tartus to import missile fuel components from China and night-vision goggles from Russia.

2003 April 21, William Safire, “Follow the Money”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

His success in tackling and convicting members of Cosa Nostra was by following the money; this is the only way leading members of organised crime syndicates will ever be convicted.

2018 April 29, Aubrey A Jones, “Letters: beat fraud: follow the money”, in The Guardian:

To analyze money flows in order to uncover corruption or other criminal activities.


VCP

vehicle checkpoint
vehicle checkpoint#English

(UK, law enforcement) Initialism of vehicle checkpoint.


clearance rate

(crime, law enforcement) The proportion of crimes that are solved by the police with respect to the total number of crimes reported.


cyberflashing

For many people of a certain age, particularly women, cyberflashing has become yet another cost of existing on the internet.

2022 June 13, Valeriya Safronova, “The Fight to End ‘Cyberflashing’”, in The New York Times:

For years, the Law Commission has been advising the government to plug this gap in legislation – a chasm between how we punish real-world behaviours and the same behaviour online – by introducing a specific cyber-flashing offence.

2023 April 19, Sophie Gallagher, “Cyber-flashing is just as damaging as the ‘real world’ equivalent. When will the law catch up?”, in The Guardian:

(computing, crime) The unsolicited sending of sexually explicit pictures of oneself to another person by means of a computer or telecommunication network.


Bukit Aman

From Malay Bukit Aman (literally “Peace Hill”), which is the location of the Royal Malaysia Police's headquarters building.

bor

(Malaysia, informal, colloquial, metonymically) The Royal Malaysia Police; the police.


movement control order

en-noun

movement control order (plural movement control orders)

Calque of Malay Perintah Kawalan Pergerakan.

calque

(Malaysia) Any of a series of national quarantine and cordon sanitaire measures imposed by the Malaysian government to halt the spread of COVID-19.

限行令 (xiànxíng lìng, literally “restriction order”)

மலேசிய அரசு இயக்க கட்டுப்பாட்டு உத்தரவு

malēciya aracu iyakka kaṭṭuppāṭṭu uttaravu


tea money

Calque of Burmese လက်ဖက်ရည်ဖိုး (lakhpak-ranyhpui:, “tea money”) likely.

လက်ဖက်ရည်ဖိုး

Low-ranking officers in Thailand’s 200,000-strong police force are poorly paid and are infamous for topping up salaries with "tea money" for everything from minor driving offences to serious crimes.

2021 August 25, SCMP Reporter, “Death of Thai man after police extortion attempt captured on viral video, sparks public anger”, in This Week in Asia, South China Morning Post, retrieved 2021-08-25:

(slang, regional, Myanmar, Thailand) A bribe, especially for facilitating a business dealing.


OIS

en-noun

OIS (countable and uncountable, plural OIS)

But an objective overview of the current literature and research associated with post-OIS officer support compared to various aspects of the research ...

2007, David E. Hatch, Randy Dickson, Officer-Involved Shootings and Use of Force: Practical Investigative Techniques, Second Edition, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 188:

Officer-involved shooting (OIS) investigations are directed at the determination of whether the shooter officer's decision to use deadly force was "objectively reasonable […]"

2017, Darrell L. Ross, Gary M. Vilke, Guidelines for Investigating Officer-Involved Shootings, Arrest-Related Deaths, and Deaths in Custody, Routledge, →ISBN, page 285:

The SHOT database gathered a dataset of 4283 officer-involved shootings (OIS) that have occurred in 50 states between January 2000 and December 2017 […]

2019, James F. Albrecht, Garth den Heyer, Perry Stanislas, Policing and Minority Communities: Contemporary Issues and Global Perspectives, Springer, →ISBN, page 117:

officer-involved shooting
officer-involved shooting#English

(law enforcement) Initialism of officer-involved shooting.


highway patrol

(law enforcement) any police unit which is primarily responsible for overseeing and enforcing of regulations on roads and highways


life imprisonment

life imprisonment (usually uncountable, plural life imprisonments)

(law) The state of being imprisoned for the rest of one's life.


elitocracy

elitocracy (countable and uncountable, plural elitocracies)


voter suppression

I identify four types of voter suppression messages: election boycott, deception (lying about time, location or manner of voting), third-party candidate promotion (e.g., the promotion of Jill Stein targeting likely Hillary Clinton voters), and same-side candidate attack (i.e., an in-kind candidate attack, such as an attack on Clinton targeting likely Clinton voters).

2020 March 5, Kim Young Mie, “New Evidence Shows How Russia’s Election Interference Has Gotten More Brazen”, in Brennan Center:

A strategy to influence the outcome of an election by discouraging or preventing specific groups of people from voting.


Irish clubhouse

Irish clubhouse (plural Irish clubhouses)


victim impact statement

victim impact statement (plural victim impact statements)

(law, criminology) A written or oral statement by the victim, or the relatives of the victim of a crime, made as part of the judicial process to convey the impact that the crime has had upon the victim or their relatives.


crisis response team

crisis response team (plural crisis response teams)

(law enforcement) a group of individuals trained to provide trauma mitigation and education in the aftermath of a critical incident


transfemicide

transfemicide (countable and uncountable, plural transfemicides)

When Monica Loera was shot to death near our North Austin home on January 22, her murder became the first of the nation's twenty-seven trans* homicides and the first of Texas's four transfemicides.

2018, Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley, Beyoncé in Formation: Remixing Black Feminism, page 145:

In recent years, contemporary protest movements such as NiUnaMenos (NotOne[Woman]Less) have drawn attention to the country's rising number of femicides, a category that in Argentina includes transvesticides and transfemicides.

2019, C. J. W.-L. Wee, “Contemporary theatre, the contemporary, and historicity”, in Helena Grehan, Peter Eckersall, editors, The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Politics, unnumbered page:

At the same time, it enables higher levels of sexist violence in society, with its wake of femicides, transvesticides, transfemicides and other hate crimes.

2020, Celeste Fierro, Feminism in Debate, Reform or Revolution?, unnumbered page:

The killing of a trans woman because of her gender identity, especially when motivated by transmisogyny.


case the joint

en-verb

case the joint (third-person singular simple present cases the joint, present participle casing the joint, simple past and past participle cased the joint)

cases the joint (present singular third-person)
casing the joint (participle present)
cased the joint (participle past)
cased the joint (past)

(idiomatic, slang, criminology) To thoroughly observe or examine a place, in order to familiarize oneself with its workings in preparation for criminal activity, often robbery.


slips and capture

A type of cognitive error whereby a person inadvertently performs one action while intending to do another.

(law enforcement) Particularly, the error by which a police officer bears a gun while intending to take out a Taser instead.


edge control

It is conditioned by edge control, minimizing threats to personal danger, resolving the encounter, avoiding excessive paperwork, and getting on with something more interesting.

2012, Carol Archbold, Policing: A Text/Reader, page 399:

In this section I describe edge control as a phenomenon associated with the contingent (or unpredictable) nature of police-citizen interactions.

2014, John P. Crank, Understanding Police Culture, page 174:

A great deal of police work is about edge control.

2018, Michael Caldero, Jeffrey Dailey, Brian Withrow, Police Ethics: The Corruption of Noble Cause, page 199:

(law enforcement) The management of an unpredictable situation in order to prevent it from becoming physically dangerous.


police commissioner

en-noun

police commissioner (plural police commissioners)

A senior rank of a member of a police force.


take the ride

en-verb

take the ride (third-person singular simple present takes the ride, present participle taking the ride, simple past took the ride, past participle taken the ride)

takes the ride (present singular third-person)
taking the ride (participle present)
took the ride (past)
taken the ride (participle past)

(idiomatic, slang, US, law enforcement) To concede to be arrested for a crime and be transported to jail.


trap car

(law enforcement) A vehicle used by law enforcement agencies as bait to capture car thieves or thieves who steal items from cars.


Armenian genocide

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(historical) The systematic mass murder of around one million ethnic Armenians in the Ottoman Empire during World War I (1915–1917).

Meds Yeghern

used especially by Armenians when speaking English


GULAG

Borrowed from Russian ГУЛА́Г (GULÁG), the acronym of Гла́вное управле́ние исправи́тельно-трудовы́х лагере́й (Glávnoje upravlénije ispravítelʹno-trudovýx lageréj, “Chief Administration of Corrective-Labor Camps”): see the definition.

One important difference between the GULAG system and the Nazi concentration camps was that a person sentenced to five years of hard labor in a Soviet labor camp could expect, assuming he or she survived, to be released at the end of the sentence.

[2006?], David Hosford, Pamela Kachurin, Thomas Lamont, “Day 1 Content Essay: The Establishment and Scope of the GULAG System”, in GULAG: Soviet Prison Camps and Their Legacy […], [U.S.A.]: National Park Service; Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-10-31, page 7, column 1:


have got someone's six

have got someone's six (third-person singular simple present has got someone's six, present participle having got someone's six, simple past and past participle had got someone's six)

has got someone's six (present singular third-person)
having got someone's six (participle present)
had got someone's six (participle past)
had got someone's six (past)

Six is slang for "rear; behind", which is itself an ellipsis of six o'clock; see more at the entry for six.

I've got your six!

have someone's back
have someone's back#English

(US, chiefly military and law enforcement slang) Synonym of have someone's back


en-proverb

when the looting starts, the shooting starts

Originally used by Walter E. Headley, the police chief of Miami, Florida, in response to an outbreak of violent crime during the 1967 Christmas holiday season. He accused "young hoodlums, from 15 to 21", of "taking advantage of the civil rights campaign" that was then sweeping the United States.

(US) Lethal force is justified against rioters and looters.


predpol

Predictive policing, using data and analytics to anticipate crimes.


perimeter check

en-noun

perimeter check (plural perimeter checks)

(law enforcement) A patrol conducted by law enforcement to monitor or secure an area.


G-ride

Casper's crews accounted for dozens of such carjackings; at times he'd have a virtual motor pool of stolen G-rides stashed in alleys and apartment building parking lots. But sometimes Casper showed more restraint — and even some real ...

2004, Gordon Dillow, William J. Rehder, Where the Money Is: True Tales from the Bank Robbery Capital of the World, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 129:

This was a getaway bucket with style, maybe a G-ride, a gangster ride, stolen out of a driveway in Beverly Hills, and behind the wheel sat the shooter's ace kool, his backup homey, ready to shave the tires bald in a pedal-jammed escape.

2009, Dean Ray Koontz, The Face, Bantam, →ISBN, page 163:

They were in a G-ride (a stolen car) and weren't trying to get knocked by The Rollers before they carried out their assignment. Keep thinking I'm candy 'til your fucking skull get popped/ and your brain jump out the top like Jack in the ...

2018, Tranay Adams, Me and My Hittas 5, Tranay Adams:


gangster ride

... so he'd avoid being pulled over by cops ; another cold car driven by a getaway driver would follow , with the three robbers bringing up the rear in a “gangster ride” or “G-ride,” a recently stolen or carjacked vehicle.

2004, William J. Rehder, Gordon Dillow, Where the Money Is: True Tales from the Bank Robbery Capital of the World, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 122:

This was a getaway bucket with style, maybe a G-ride, a gangster ride, stolen out of a driveway in Beverly Hills, and behind the wheel sat the shooter's ace kool, his backup homey, ready to shave the tires bald in a pedal-jammed escape..

(slang) A stolen car, especially if stolen by gang members.


hot pencil

A police officer uses a pencil to write tickets, which would get warm if used a lot due to friction.

He was a hot pencil who kept CHP brass happy by writing more tickets than anybody. Secretly, he was using his highly polished Badge 861 1 to stalk young women for weird, sexually tinged power games.

From what he could ascertain, he was at least as good or even better as a police detective and as a partner than Charga ever was or could ever be. “he was more than a hot pencil when he was in uniform.” Dunne continued, “Did you know ...

2011, Joseph "Champagne Joe" Militello, Canister Of Evil, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 34:

Exposing Police Sexual Misconduct Tom Barker. about the same time as the police. ... As is common in police agencies, his fellow officers were aware of his bizarre antics. ... Known as “hot pencil,” he averaged 250 tickets a month.

2020, Tom Barker, Aggressors in Blue: Exposing Police Sexual Misconduct, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 104:

(law enforcement slang) A police officer who writes many tickets.


bomb squad

They isolate; they evacuate the area; and they call the bomb squad. We then go in and do our examination.

1978, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Criminal Laws and Procedures, Tagging of Explosives: Hearings Before the Subcommittee..., page 181:

Sam and the informant were quickly arrested, and the bomb squad defused the bombs.

2015, Robert A Casper Sr., The FBI, a Vocation to Serve:

A division of a police force or the military responsible for safely defusing or detonating hazardous explosive devices.


radio car

Daniels: Can I get you out of a radio car? ... I'm short two men in ops and my follow-up squad couldn't make a case to save its life. You're too damned good to be humpin' calls.

2006 Sept. 10, David Simon & al., "Boys of Summer", The Wire, 00:23:10

(US law enforcement slang) Synonym of police car.


goodify

en-verb

goodify (third-person singular simple present goodifies, present participle goodifying, simple past and past participle goodified)

goodifies (present singular third-person)
goodifying (participle present)
goodified (participle past)
goodified (past)

From good + -ify.
* (kill a black person): Coined in reference to the phrase "the only good nigger is a dead nigger", a popular saying among white supremacists.

All its goodness wears a sickly hue: it is only the badness of the reckless brother that claims our interest, and even he is “goodified” at the end.

1879, The International Review, volume 6, page 712:

Black may be planning to 'goodify' his bad bishop with a future ...♗g5, in which case he has the ...hxg5 option.

2015, Cyrus Lakdawala, Tal: Move by Move, London: Everyman Chess, →ISBN, page 301:

Ellacu, if you will allow me the expression—which I believe is a neologism—those who are grateful have the ability “to goodify reality” [“buenear la realidad”].

2018, Robert Lasalle-Klein, Jon Sobrino: Spiritual Writings:

(transitive, rare, nonstandard) To make good; to improve.

2015 January 24, Fred Oinka, “Scum nigger shot his family, killing 3, then goodified himself”, in alt.fan.rush-limbaugh (Usenet), retrieved 2022-08-23:

The trigger niggers, Samuel Fayomi Brown, 20, of Hyattsville, and Tierek Ty Jay Thomas, 20, of Washington, police say, had a plan: Lure a marijuana dealer, to a dead-end street, surround its hooptie and take its $1,000 worth of pot.
Goodified in the incident was Waasi Harron Raheem Young, 20, a Washington crapper that went by “YC” or “TrapFlavaCee,” according to court records.

2017 March 16, Rick Mathers, “"You are shooting me!"”, in soc.culture.african-american (Usenet), retrieved 2022-08-23:

An 18-year-old trigger teennigger, Dakale Bowman aka Sean Bowman, was arrested Monday and charged with murder in the goodification of 16-year-old anus lipped teendusa Taiyania Thompson that was ventilated in an apepartment near Gallaudet University on Thursday and gave a bat its wings the following Sunday, January 28, authorities said.

2018 February 21, Hansi Gehirn-Schaden, “Anus lipped teendusa posing with guns for social media was goodified by its boonfriend”, in talk.politics.guns (Usenet), retrieved 2022-08-23:

Pastor Weathers goodified nigger bucksow Slough ^([sic]) with a single gunshot to the chest.

2019 April 10, Robert Wolfe, “Nigger pastor kills tranny in Detroit”, in alt.checkmate (Usenet), retrieved 2022-08-23:

2020 September 10, Siri Cruise, “Chimpopo goodifies and aggravated knife weilding groid”, in soc.culture.african.american (Usenet), retrieved 2022-08-23:

(transitive, Internet slang, offensive, ethnic slur) To kill or murder a black person.


goodification

en-noun

goodification (usually uncountable, plural goodifications)

From good + -ification or goodify + -ication.

It took until 2012 for the change to actually be implemented, but when it was, it was trumpeted as the 'Goodification' of KFC.

(rare, nonstandard) The state or process of being goodified or made good.


clan lab

A laboratory where illegal drugs are manufactured.


murder book

(law enforcement) A case file of a murder investigation.


horcrux

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Lord Voldemort
horcrux

Coined by author J. K. Rowling through the random "transposition of syllables," though fans have pointed to the possible influence of Middle English hore (“iniquity, evil, sin”) and English crux (“the central or essential part”). The term first appears in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2005).

They stared at it as if it was the one ring or the holy grail or a horcrux, or perhaps all of them rolled into one. An empty, plastic cat food bowl.

2013, Adam Rawlins, The Strange Encounter of Sally Shakespeare and Toby Tinker, page 24:

They were standard fit, vintage wash, pretty expensive, and I showed them to him and I said, “These are yours if you want them.” And do you know what he did? He actually flinched. Like these were haunted pants or something. Like these were Horcrux jeans with a piece of Lord Voldemort’s soul in them.

2013, Teddy Steinkellner, Trash Can Days: A Middle School Saga, page 20:

Again, he didn’t say anything and she asked him about the arrowhead—was it his Horcrux or something? was there a piece of his soul trapped inside it?—and he shrugged it off.

2016, Joe Halstead, West Virginia, page 38:

In the Harry Potter series, an object in which a wizard has concealed a part of their soul through magic, rendering them immortal until the object is irreparably damaged or destroyed.


Macau scam

From Macau, where such scams were first reported. Compare Tagalog lutong makaw.

(Malaysia) A scam where criminals impersonate a legal authority, a lottery, a kidnapper demanding a ransom, or a bank authority, to trick people into paying them money.


TARU

(New York City) Initialism of Technical Assistance Response Unit


child sexual abuse

Alternative form: child sex abuse

More than $100 million has been paid out to victims of institutional child sexual abuse in Queensland, amid more than 13,000 national applications for redress.

2022 April 14, Cloe Read, “$100m paid out to child sexual abuse victims in schools, churches”, in Brisbane Times:

One meta-analysis found that European countries, many of which offer comprehensive, mandatory sex ed, including for young children, tend to have the lowest rates of child sexual abuse in the world.

2022 April 14, Olga Khazan, “Republicans Have Sex Ed All Wrong”, in The Atlantic:

(crime) Sexual abuse of a child by an adult or older child.


child sex abuse

A 2020 study that examined three decades of research on sex education found that comprehensive sex ed that begins in elementary school can help prevent child sex abuse, among other benefits.

Online child sex abuse has increased by 27 per cent in just two years, as the NSPCC called for tougher laws to combat “digital breadcrumbing” that signposts paedophiles to illegal content.

2022 April 15, Charles Hymas, “Online child sex abuse up by 27 per cent in two years”, in The Telegraph:

child sexual abuse
child sexual abuse#English

(crime) Alternative form of child sexual abuse.


sex abuse

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street pharmacist

street pharmacist (plural street pharmacists)

drug dealer (aka street pharmacist :) I can't get a real job yet, so yeah that's my job. I get it from my dad and sell it myself. :)

1999 February 5, chase, “What's your day job?”, in alt.guitar (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-19:

Joe, being sick of Bob's BS, and constant sucking up, bludgeons Bob about the head with his Prayer Book. Bob arrives at the Pearly Gates and Joe inherits all of Bob's worldly possessions. God no longer loves Joe, but mearly likes him. Joe becomes a pimp and street pharmacist.

1999 October 18, John Kozin, “OT: THEOLOGICAL ENGINEERING EXAM 1”, in alt.toys.gi-joe (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-19:

They are not a prostitute, they are" Social Workers ".The same is for the drug dealers, they are not a drug dealers, they are "Street Pharmacist!!!!

2000 March 1, firefly, “Street prostitution in Bratislava”, in soc.culture.czecho-slovak (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-19:


A variant of the British 999, originally selected as an appropriate number for rotary-dial telephones and adapted in New Zealand because the formatting on its pulse-dial system made 1 equivalent to 9 as processed by its British-made telecommunications equipment.

When you call 111 in New Zealand, the Spark operator usually answers the phone with "111 Emergency. Do you require fire, ambulance, or police?"

The telephone number for emergency services in New Zealand and Nauru.


The telephone number for law enforcement in Peru.


JAWI

w:ms:Jabatan Agama Islam Wilayah Persekutuan

(Malaysia, Islam) Acronym of Jabatan Agama Islam Wilayah Persekutuan (“Islamic Religious Department of the Federal Territory, a branch of the government organisation JAKIM”).

JAIS

Islamic law enforcement agency in Selangor


JAKIM

(Malaysia, Islam) Acronym of Jabatan Kemajuan Islam Malaysia (“Department of Islamic Development Malaysia”).


en-verb

kill0r (third-person singular simple present kill0rs, present participle kill0ring, simple past and past participle kill0red)

> How did you know it was Fury?
The "We are the Furbies and will kill0r j00 4ll!" msgs to the GC probably gave it away.

2001 June 19, Kit, “When Furby attacks......”, in rec.games.computer.planetarion (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-06:

Anyone who listened to my song, thanks, but I've missed any comments - my NNTP server only keeps posts for a week, then it kill0rs them. Boo-urns!

2001 September 4, Jonathan McArthur, “Eh, fuck it.”, in alt.music.radiohead (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-06:

14) Spike and Angel are trying to kill0r the middle huge demons but are doing sweet FA damage. Cue some Fatherly and Son dialogue between Spike, Angel and Connor.

2004 May 23, Dan Lam, “Part two of the Angel Final Episode”, in alt.tv.angel (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-06:

I HAVE TEH KILL0rED 10 MILLION PEOPLES. I BLAME THE WAR ON TERROR AS I EMULATED THE SHOOTERS

2004 July 29, David Beamish, “BAN THIS SICK FILTH! AGAIN!”, in uk.games.video.misc (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-06:

I'm pretty sure that if Ganon had been left out of TP, Mr Guest would be saying 'TEHY HVAE KILL0RED TEH Z3LDAR!!11!!one!'

2006 January 25, Sir Chewbury Gubbins, “Zelda TP developer: "we're preparing more than you could possibly ever, ever, ever expect"”, in alt.games.video.nintendo.gameboy.advance (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-06:


Nigerian prince scam

en-noun

Nigerian prince scam (plural Nigerian prince scams)

Referring to earlier scams that claim to be from royalty in Nigeria who sought money to escape their country.

A scam in which the solicitor offers large sums of money in return for a smaller up front investment.


domestic terrorism

domestic terrorism (usually uncountable, plural domestic terrorisms)

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A bomb went off outside the offices of a Greek business federation in the heart of Athens early on Tuesday, causing damage but no injuries, the police said. It was the first such attack under the country’s leftist-led government, fueling fears of a possible resurgence of domestic terrorism.

2015 November 24, Niki Kitsantonis, “Athens Blast Hurts None but Fuels Fears of Domestic Terrorism”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

In a statement on Tuesday, the president of the F.B.I. Agents Association, Brian O’Hare, urged Congress “to make domestic terrorism a federal crime. This would ensure that F.B.I. agents and prosecutors have the best tools to fight domestic terrorism.”

2019 August 7, Charlie Savage, quoting Brian O’Hare, “What Could a Domestic Terrorism Law Do?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Expressing deep concern about violence tied to white supremacy and other forms of bigotry, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo proposed on Thursday to make New York the first state to classify “hate-fueled” killings as domestic terrorism.

2019 August 15, Vivian Wang, “New York Moves to Classify Killings Fueled by White Supremacy as Domestic Terrorism”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

A form of terrorism in which victims within a country are targeted by a perpetrator with the same citizenship as the victims.


serial kill

en-verb

serial kill (third-person singular simple present serial kills, present participle serial killing, simple past and past participle serial killed)

serial kills (present singular third-person)
serial killing (participle present)
serial killed (participle past)
serial killed (past)

When the idea that Samantha had been kidnapped by a serial killer first came up in last night's "paper hearts", my sis and I droned out the ensuing commercials by babbling at each other:
"Oh no! She was serial killed! It all makes sense! Poor Mulder!"

1996 December 16, Claire Kerr, “Moose's Mum Confessed So Whut Wuz He Thinkin'?”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-18:

Wayne Williams(black) was responsible for the serial killings of several black childern in Atlanta. He committed serial murder in proportion to his race that comprises nearly 13% of the total U.S. population . Charles Eng(Asian) killed serveral people of various races in the northern California area. He serial killed in proportion to his race that comprises less than 3% of the total U.S. population

1999 September 2, Jim, “Why do negros kill people?”, in alt.rush-limbaugh (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-18:

Sure, there are non-whites who murder whites. I can't think of a single case in the U.S., however, where a non-white has serial killed as many victims as Franklin on the basis of racist ideology.

2000 July 31, birk...@my-deja.com, “We need more like Benjamin Smith.”, in alt.revisionism (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-18:

> I think MB would make a good serial killer; better than dumb, old Henry Lucas or those lame Hillside Stranglers.
A person would be proud to be serial killed by MB.

2003 June 19, righter, “I almost had to shoot somebody tonight”, in alt.tv.sopranos (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-18:

Again, quality over quantity. Avoid the elderly and sick, as they tend to be ignored also. Children are OK, but only if they have parents who can cry for the cameras. You almost never hear of orphans being serial killed, and not because they aren't.

2005 March 13, Offshore Eddie, “Re: Serial Killer DOs and DON'Ts”, in alt.true-crime (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-18:

(transitive) To kill as part of a series of murders.


death threat

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A threat to kill another person or a group of people.


HMP

(Newfoundland, law enforcement) Initialism of Her/His Majesty's Penitentiary.

(Commonwealth, law enforcement) Abbreviation of Her/His Majesty's Prison. The name of several prisons in the British Commonwealth and British Empire.


HMP

en-noun

HMP (countable and uncountable, plural HMPs)

(UK, law enforcement) Initialism of Her/His Majesty's Prison.: The prefix used in the names of prisons in the United Kingdom.


ADX

administrative maximum
w:supermax prison

(US) Abbreviation of administrative maximum; supermax.


schwack

en-verb

schwack (third-person singular simple present schwacks, present participle schwacking, simple past and past participle schwacked)

schwacks (present singular third-person)
schwacking (participle present)
schwacked (participle past)
schwacked (past)

They schwack him for it. That's what they'll do.

2022 June 24, Shannon Vavra, quoting Daniel Hoffman, a former CIA Moscow chief of station, “'The ‘Fucking Hammer to the Head’ That Could End Putin”, in Daily Beast, then MailOnline:

(US, criminal slang, rare) alternative form of whack


crimo

From crime + -o (“person with characteristic”).

suffix

; See also Thesaurus:criminal

(New Zealand, slang) A person with multiple criminal convictions; a career criminal.


child marriage

en-noun

child marriage (countable and uncountable, plural child marriages)

The marriage or cohabitation between a minor and an adult or another minor.


Rosgvardia

Borrowed from Russian Росгва́рдия (Rosgvárdija).

National Guard of Russia (the internal military force of the Russian government)


phrogging

(slang, criminology) The act of secretly living in another person’s home without authorization.


phrog

(slang, criminology) A person who secretly lives in another’s home without authorization.


OCTB

(Hong Kong, law enforcement) Initialism of Organised Crime and Triad Bureau.


love scam

A consumer fraud that involves criminals attempting to make victims fall in love with or marry them, and tricking them into paying them money.


interview under caution

interview under caution (plural interviews under caution)

From the mandatory caution given by the police to the suspect at the beginning of such interviews: “You do not have to say anything. But, it may harm your defence if you do not mention when questioned something which you later rely on in court. Anything you do say may be given in evidence.”.

(criminal law, law enforcement, England and Wales, formal) A formal interview of a suspect by the police as part of a criminal investigation, for which the suspect is entitled to legal representation. Used to determine whether or not to prosecute the suspect, and most commonly conducted following arrest, though sometimes in other circumstances.


CTSFO

(UK, law enforcement) Abbreviation of counter-terrorist specialist firearms officer.


POCC

(law enforcement) Abbreviation of police operations command centre.


PoCC

prisoners of conscience
prisoner of conscience#English

(law, politics, law enforcement, incarceration) Abbreviation of prisoners of conscience committee.


NYAG

Among the issues the NYAG is examining is whether WeWork’s founder and former chief executive, Adam Neumann, indulged in self-dealing to enrich himself.

2019 November 19, “WeWork: New York attorney general investigating founder's possible self-dealing”, in The Guardian:

attorney general
attorney general#English

(law enforcement) Initialism of New York State attorney general.


bake someone's bread

en-verb

bake someone's bread (third-person singular simple present bakes someone's bread, present participle baking someone's bread, simple past and past participle baked someone's bread)

bakes someone's bread (present singular third-person)
baking someone's bread (participle present)
baked someone's bread (participle past)
baked someone's bread (past)

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(dated, rare) To kill or murder someone.


murder-for-hire

en-noun

murder-for-hire (plural murder-for-hires or murders-for-hire)

murder-for-hires (plural)
murders-for-hire (plural)

contract killing
contract killing#English


USCP

United States Capitol Police
w:United States Capitol Police

(law enforcement) Initialism of United States Capitol Police: a federal law enforcement agency in the United States with nationwide jurisdiction charged with protecting the United States Congress.


felony stop

(US, law enforcement) A traffic stop of a person that is deemed dangerous, and performed from a distance by shouting instructions with weapons drawn.


felony traffic stop

felony traffic stop (plural felony traffic stops)

(US, law enforcement) Synonym of felony stop


child abuser

(criminology) A person guilty of child abuse; someone who has abused a minor.


no further action

Alternative form: (abbreviation) NFA

(law enforcement, criminal law, UK, Malaysia) A potential formal outcome for a suspect from a police investigation, indicating that no action will be taken.


family annihilator

family annihilator (plural family annihilators)

(crime) A person who kills multiple members of their own nuclear family in a killing spree (also known as a familicide); often before committing suicide.


cement shoes

(crime, euphemistic) A largely-apocryphal method of execution or dead-body disposal said to be used by the Mafia or other similar organized crime groups, wherein a block of concrete is poured around the victim's feet and allowed to set before the victim is thrown into a body of water (to drown if still alive).


woodkern

From wood + kern. Calque of Irish ceithearn choille.

(historical) In medieval Ireland, a bandit operating in the forest.


ICV

ICV (countable and uncountable, plural ICVs)

(law enforcement) Abbreviation of in-car video.


sex crime

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Cop City

Coined by critics of the project in 2021.

(informal, neologism) A neighborhood of Atlanta, DeKalb, Georgia, United States A proposed development for a forested area and former prison farm which would turn it into a model neighborhood mockup for police training and police training academy


signaletics

(criminology, historical) The Bertillon system of anthropometry.


debtors' prison

debtors' prison (plural debtors' prisons)

A prison for people who are unable to pay debt.


maaveh

Borrowed from Pahari-Potwari مان٘ویں (māṉveṉ), plural form of مان٘واں (māṉvāṉ, “mother's young brother”).

bor+

For the young people in the youth clubs, the constant presence of local authorities was uncomfortable. At a Prevent funded youth club in Leeds, one of the boys complains to me: ‘Why is he [Danish] always letting the ‘maaveh’ (police) in here?’

2018 February 13, Fahid Qureshi, “The Prevent strategy and the UK ‘war on terror’: embedding infrastructures of surveillance in Muslim communities”, in Nature, retrieved 2024-04-20:


time police

(science fiction) An organization which regulates time travel, especially with the purpose of preventing the past from being changed.


time cop

(science fiction) A member of the time police.


time patrol

Synonym of time police (“an organization which regulates time travel”).


on the hurry up

'Read the CAD as you go – on the hurry up please. Need you there as soon as possible. Make sure you let Control know when you're on scene.'

2018, Alice Vinten, On the Line: Life – and death – in the Metropolitan Police:

(UK, law enforcement, slang) At top speed; as fast as possible.


oprichnik

(historical) A member of the bodyguard corps established by Tsar Ivan the Terrible to govern a division of Russia from 1565 to 1572.


nuclear terrorism

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detective inspector

en-noun

detective inspector (plural detective inspectors)

(UK, law enforcement) A police rank used in Commonwealth countries.


officer down

(law enforcement) A police officer has been critically wounded, incapacitated, or killed.


black notice

(law enforcement) A notice from Interpol seeking information on unidentified dead bodies.


green notice

(law enforcement) A notice from Interpol warning about the criminal activities of a person considered to be a possible threat to public safety.


blue notice

A 26-year-old woman named ‘S A’ “was identified as a DAESH (Islamic State) terrorist wanted with a ‘blue notice’,” the tweet said. An Interpol blue notice is issued to collect additional information about a person’s identity, location or activities in relation to a crime.

2021 February 15, “Turkey catches New Zealanders linked to Isis entering from Syria”, in The Guardian:

(law enforcement) A notice from Interpol seeking to locate, identify or obtain information on a person of interest in a criminal investigation.


yellow notice

(law enforcement) A notice from Interpol seeking to locate a missing person or to identify a person unable to identify themselves.


orange notice

(law enforcement) A notice from Interpol warning of an imminent threat and danger to persons or property.


purple notice

(law enforcement) A notice from Interpol providing information on modi operandi, procedures, objects, devices, or hiding places used by criminals.


indict a ham sandwich

en-verb

indict a ham sandwich (third-person singular simple present indicts a ham sandwich, present participle indicting a ham sandwich, simple past and past participle indicted a ham sandwich)

indicts a ham sandwich (present singular third-person)
indicting a ham sandwich (participle present)
indicted a ham sandwich (participle past)
indicted a ham sandwich (past)

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That one-sided arrangement often leads defense lawyers to minimize indictments and argue that prosecutors could persuade jurors to “indict a ham sandwich,” a proverbial phrase that former Vice President Mike Pence used on CNN Thursday night.

2023 March 31, Maria Cramer, “Here’s how indictments work in the United States’ legal system”, in The New York Times:

When asked in an interview Thursday with ABC13 if she was worried about being indicted herself, Hidalgo responded "I don't know how far this is going to go and it's very easy if you present one-sided facts to a grand jury. Everybody knows that a grand jury can indict a ham sandwich if that's all they see."

2022 April 14, Ariana Garcia, “Harris Co. Judge Lina Hidalgo on staff indictments: 'A grand jury can indict a ham sandwich”, in Chron:

(chiefly US, law, hyperbolic) To charge (someone) with a crime with ease, despite the innocence of the accused party, a lack of evidence to secure an indictment, etc.


FAM

“I ultimately decided to leave (retire) because I was denied the ability to leverage my experience for the good of the FAMs and I realize that I was part of a system which was putting the emotional well-being of FAMs at risk,” Kathleen Christian, who resigned last year as a clinical psychologist with the federal air marshals, said on Nov. 17 in a scathing email to several marshals.

2018 April 25, Ron Nixon, “Scandals and Investigations, but Few Arrests, for Air Marshals Program”, in The New York Times:

(US, law enforcement) Initialism of federal air marshal.


IHAT

Iraq Historic Allegations Team
w:Iraq Historic Allegations Team

(UK, law enforcement) Initialism of Iraq Historic Allegations Team.


black land

black land (third-person singular simple present black lands, present participle black landing, simple past and past participle black landed)

black lands (present singular third-person)
black landing (participle present)
black landed (participle past)
black landed (past)

Back-formation from black landing (“illegal fishing trawl in excess of fishing quotas”).

bf

(Shetland) To illegally trawl fish in excess of fishing quotas.


Coordinate term: JO2

(Philippines, law enforcement) Abbreviation of jail officer, grade one (“prison guard”). The lowest grade of jail officers, the entry level jail officer.


re-Mirandize

en-verb

re-Mirandize (third-person singular simple present re-Mirandizes, present participle re-Mirandizing, simple past and past participle re-Mirandized)

re-Mirandizes (present singular third-person)
re-Mirandizing (participle present)
re-Mirandized (participle past)
re-Mirandized (past)

(transitive, US, law enforcement) To Mirandize again.


SIO

(UK, law enforcement) Initialism of senior investigating officer.


compliance strike

en-noun

compliance strike (plural compliance strikes)

(euphemistic, law enforcement) A punch or kick.


transgendercide

transgendercide (usually uncountable, plural not attested)

From transgender + -cide, by analogy with genocide, homicide, femicide, etc. In some uses, a calque of Spanish travesticidio (“travesticide”).

cal

[see title]

2015 March 11, Erick Chavarria, “Oakland Voices: Transgendercide of women of color drives young trans woman to take her own life”, in Daily Democrat:

At the march, protesters held handmade signs denouncing the murder of Ms. Sacayán, 40, one of the most prominent transgender activists in Argentina. She led a group that fights discrimination against transgender people and was a regional representative of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association. On the street, someone had stenciled graffiti that read, “Basta de travesticidios,” or “Enough transgendercide.”

2015 November 29, Jonathan Gilbert, “Transgender Argentines Confront Continued Murder and Discrimination”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-07:

This article has exposed how the transdanger presence in the performing arts in Brazil is more than just a new aesthetic form, but a necessary political turn in favour of protecting transgender people from unbridled transgendercide.

2021 October, Dodi T. B. Leal, “Gender in Danger: Transdanger People in Performing Arts in Brazil”, in Theatre Research International, volume 46, number 3, →DOI, pages 404–405:

(rare, nonce word) The killing of a transgender person or transgender people collectively because of their gender, especially when motivated by transphobia.


EOW

Police Officer Thomas Frederick (Tom) Ballman, Kirkwood Police Department, MO, EOW: Thursday, February 7, 2008, Cause of Death: Gunfire.

2009 February 25, “Peace Officers Killed Last Year in the Line of Duty”, in Congressional Record (Bound Edition), volume 155, number 5, U.S. Government Publishing Office, page 5581:

(US, law enforcement) Initialism of end of watch.


offence to be taken into consideration

en-noun

offence to be taken into consideration (plural offences to be taken into consideration)

offences to be taken into consideration (plural)

From offence + to be + taken into consideration.

com

(UK, criminal law, law enforcement) An additional criminal offence which a defendant agrees to admit to following their conviction, which is formally taken into account when they are sentenced, but with a lesser weight than a full conviction.


scofflawry

The dangers of scofflawry vary wildly. The person who illegally spits on the sidewalk remains disgusting, but clearly poses less risk to others than the company that illegally buries hazardous chemical waste in an unauthorized location.

1983 January 24, Frank Trippett, “Essay: A Red Light for Scofflaws”, in Time:

A habitual disregard for minor laws or failure to respond to trivial courts summonses.


OCG

(UK, law enforcement) Initialism of organised crime group.


AFO

(UK, law enforcement) Initialism of authorised firearms officer.


battered child syndrome

shaken baby syndrome
shaken baby syndrome#English


FTO

field training officer
field training officer#English

(US, law enforcement) Initialism of field training officer.


honor killer

(US) Alternative spelling of honour killer


viewbot

en-verb

viewbot (third-person singular simple present viewbots, present participle viewbotting, simple past and past participle viewbotted)

viewbots (present singular third-person)
viewbotting (participle present)
viewbotted (participle past)
viewbotted (past)

(Internet, crime) To increase the view count of an Internet video or a livestream via illegitimate means.


RWI

rotary-wing intercept
rotary-wing intercept#English

(law enforcement, military) Initialism of rotary-wing intercept.


bogus-maker

(US, dialect, archaic) A counterfeiter (of money).


Gadianton

Within the narrative of the Book of Helaman, from Gadianton, an ancient conspirator against the Nephite judges.

What made the Gadiantons serious ideological opponents of republicanism rather than mere thugs were their political ambitions. Cynics have called government “organized theft,” and the Gadiantons took this principle to its logical extreme.

1989, Kenneth H. Winn, Exiles in a Land of Liberty: Mormons in America, 1830–1846, →ISBN, page 33:

Like Gadiantons of old, corporate interests and their secret combinations (for what is more secret than hidden moneyed influence outside of the channels of public transparency?) are even now seeking to overturn democracy and obstruct the will of the people.

2013, Boyd Jay Petersen, Dead Wood and Rushing Water: Essays on Mormon Faith, Culture, and Family, page 150:

(Mormonism, also attributive) A member of various criminal secret societies described in the Book of Mormon.


HMPS

(UK, law enforcement) Abbreviation of His/Her Majesty's Prison Service.


grand theft

(US) The criminal act of stealing an amount higher than a limit deemed by statute, therefore carrying more severe penalties than a simple theft.


NYSP

New York State Police
w:en:New York State Police

(US, law enforcement) Abbreviation of New York State Police.


human trafficker

en-noun

human trafficker (plural human traffickers)

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One who is engaged in human trafficking.


spy cop

(UK, law enforcement, slang) An undercover police officer tasked with infiltrating a politically active group which is deemed to pose a risk of criminal activity, so as to allow the police to monitor the group's activities on an ongoing basis.


pretty police

(UK, law enforcement, slang, historical) Male police officers disguised as gay men who instigated sexual encounters with gay men as an excuse to arrest them for soliciting sex.


JAIS

Jabatan Agama Islam Selangor
Jabatan Agama Islam Selangor#Malay

(Malaysia, Islam) Initialism of Jabatan Agama Islam Selangor (“Islamic Religious Department of Selangor, a branch of the government organisation JAKIM”).

JAWI

Islamic law enforcement agency in Kuala Lumpur


school shooter

(chiefly US, crime) Someone who commits a school shooting.


mall shooter

(chiefly US, crime) Someone who commits a mall shooting.


mass shooter

(chiefly US, crime) Someone who commits a mass shooting.


mall shooting

(chiefly US, crime) A mass shooting which occurs in a shopping mall.


school shooting

school shooting (plural school shootings)

From school + shooting. First use appears c. 1903 in the Savannah Morning News.

Coordinate term: mall shooting

(chiefly US, crime) A mass shooting which occurs in a school or university, targeting their students and staff; typically in an indiscriminate manner.


corrupt practice

corrupt practice (plural corrupt practices)

(criminal law, UK, Commonwealth, Hong Kong) a group of serious electoral offences (as opposed to illegal practices), which generally includes bribery, treating and undue influence towards voters.

(criminal law, US) predicate crimes underlying racketeering

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see corrupt, practice.


body broker

(criminology) A firm or an individual who seeks financial gain by exploiting a vulnerable person who is seeking treatment for addiction.


Monster Mansion

So called because of the large number of high-profile, high-risk inmates.


follow-home

(law, criminology) Referring to a crime in which the perpetrator follows the victim to their place of residence.


hold-up squad

Amnesty International (AI) has found that allegations of torture and other forms of abuses by members of the hold-up squad of this city's police department are "substantial enough to justify an inquiry."

1982 April 24, David Morris, “Torture in the North”, in Gay Community News, page 2:

(law enforcement) A subsection of a police department specializing in apprehending violent and dangerous suspects.


community quarantine

community quarantine (plural community quarantines)

(Philippines) Any of the series of quarantines and cordon sanitaire measures imposed by the Philippine government to control the transmission of COVID-19.

COVID-19 community quarantines in the Philippines


photo pack

(law, criminology) A collection of photographs to be shown sequentially to a witness, conducted by a police officer or detective who does not know the identity of the suspect.


process-serving

process-serving (countable and uncountable, plural process-servings)

(law enforcement) The act or assignment of delivering processes or summonses.


Ch Supt

The inquest into how 96 Liverpool supporters died at that 1989 match was told that in Ch Supt Brian Mole's F division, four officers had to resign and seven were disciplined after the prank, which occured^([sic]) in October 1988, came to light.

2014 July 7, David Conn, “Hillsborough inquest hears of police commander's transfer before match”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

chief superintendent
w:chief superintendent

(UK, law enforcement) Abbreviation of chief superintendent.


chief super

(UK, law enforcement, colloquial) Clipping of chief superintendent.


outside job

From outside + job, by analogy with inside job.

The resource officer suspected the rape incident at our high school coffee shop was an outside job.

(idiomatic, criminology, humorous, sarcastic) A crime or other illicit action committed by an individual not connected or associated with the premises or organization in which it took place.


post prison

The regimental guardhouse was on the ground floor of the Regimental Headquarters Building at its southern end, facing the quadrangle. It was modern in every respect and about as secure as any prison. There were never more than about fifteen or twenty regimental prisoners confined in the guardhouse, men either awaiting trial or serving sentences of six months or less. Most of the sentences were for minor offenses, such as drunkenness, violation of orders, pilferage, and absence without leave—A.W.O.L. Men convicted of more serious offenses, such as desertion, larceny, insubordination, sex deviation, and other more serious crimes, were confined in the post prison.

1989, Lucian King Truscott, The Twilight of the U.S. Cavalry. Life in the Old Army, 1917-1942, University Press of Kansas, →ISBN, page 43:

(US military, historical) The prison of a regimental post.


odometer fraud

(law, criminology, automotive) The illegal practice of rolling back an odometer to make it appear that a vehicle has lower mileage than it actually does.


tac squad

Jammed onto a narrow, steep sidewalk, police barricades all around, we march with placards, drums, and angry spirit: "The Moral Majority, cops and Klan. Work together hand in hand." — helmeted tac squad on horses, Hondas, facing us on Powell Street, itching to wield their billy clubs, waiting for any excuse to let fly.

1984 August 11, Merle Woo, “Revolutionary Optimism—The Order of the Day”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 5, page 5:


NOPD

New Orleans Police Department
w:New Orleans Police Department

(law enforcement) Initialism of New Orleans Police Department.


gotaway

Under Biden in 2021, gotaways leaped to almost 390,000 (a 465 percent increase over Trump's last year).

2024, Troy E. Nehls, Borderless by Design:

(US, law enforcement) An illegal immigrant who has successfully entered the country without being apprehended.


juice badge

(US, historical, law enforcement) An unofficial police badge issued in the 1930s by the LAPD chief and given to his supporters.


arms trafficking

The process of smuggling, distributing and selling illegal weapons.

usafirishaji wa silaha

smuggling, distribution and sale of weapons


white-collar criminal

white-collar criminal (plural white-collar criminals)

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(business, law, criminology) An individual who partakes in, or has been convicted of, a white-collar crime.


drug cartel

(criminology) A criminal organization consisting of independent druglords who collude with each other in order to improve their profits and dominate the illegal drug trade.


nonaggravated

In making this determination, we look to the evidence pertaining only to the element of aggravated robbery that distinguishes it from nonaggravated robbery.

1997, West's South Eastern Reporter, page 680:

Making nonaggravated sexual assault a strict liability crime means, in effect, that even if it would be completely impossible and unreasonable for the man to believe that the woman was engaging in the sexual act against her will (or, perhaps, that she thought the sex was insufficiently "communicative"), he would still be convicted.

2010, Leslie Francis, Date Rape: Feminism, Philosophy, and the Law, page 120:

However, repeated nonaggravated assault against a family member was considered a criminal offense and punishable by up to 360 hours of community service, a maximum of one year of forced labor, or a maximum of two years in prison.

2019, Kathleen Nadeau, Sangita Rayamajhi, Women and Violence: Global Lives in Focus, page 76:

(criminology) Not aggravated; not including factors such as violence, deadly weapons, drugs, including additional offenses, etc. that make the criminal offense more heinous or offensive.


jury tampering

From jury + tampering. First use appears c. 1871 in the New York Herald.

(law, criminology) The crime of unduly attempting to influence the composition or decisions of a jury during the course of a trial.


cooling time

cooling time (countable and uncountable, plural cooling times)

(law, criminology) The amount of time required for an individual to calm down and think clearly after being seriously provoked, allowing the individual to consider the consequences of their actions in order to make a rational decision.


maximum holding time

maximum holding time (countable and uncountable, plural maximum holding times)

(law, criminology) The greatest amount of time in which a sample may be stored between sampling and the commencement of analysis and still be considered a valid sample for compliance testing.


sing like a canary

en-verb

sing like a canary (third-person singular simple present sings like a canary, present participle singing like a canary, simple past sang like a canary, past participle sung like a canary)

sings like a canary (present singular third-person)
singing like a canary (participle present)
sang like a canary (past)
sung like a canary (participle past)

(slang) To inform on a criminal in great detail.


D/S

(law enforcement) Initialism of deputy sheriff.


crime scene tape

en-noun

crime scene tape (countable and uncountable, plural crime scene tapes)

(law enforcement, criminology) Police tape that used to cordon off a crime scene.


MMEA

Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency
w:Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency

(Malaysia, law enforcement, nautical) Initialism of Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (“Agensi Penguatkuasaan Maritim Malaysia”).


CCDI

w:Central Commission for Discipline Inspection

Abbreviation of Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.


time of occurrence

time of occurrence (countable and uncountable, plural times of occurrence)

(law, criminology, forensic science) An event, such as the time of death or the time of incident, that is crucial to a death investigation.


gain time

gain time (countable and uncountable, plural gain times)

(law, criminology) A reduction of a prisoner’s sentence due to exemplary behavior or participation in a rehabilitation program during incarceration.


Belmarsh

He was the third prisoner to have died in Belmarsh within the past year. Another inmate was found dead there in November.

2020 January 8, Owen Bowcott, “Investigation after prisoner found dead in cell at Belmarsh”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

Short for HM Prison Belmarsh, a high-security prison in southeast London.


bibcam

From an abbreviation of "boys in bedroom" + cam.

Sergeant Matt Pilon was able to complete a direct download of a file with the ED2K value of, Scc6e5ac3a56f725dbab5fd43c222653, named, "Bibcam 13Yo Boy Timmy Showers For Webcam (2009. avi ".

2012 May 1, Karen B. Molzen, United States of America v. Antonio Gallegos:

Agent Matthews testified that "BIB" stands for "boys in bedroom" and "BIBCAM" typically indicates webcam videos of young boys.

2016 February 18, Shirley Padmore Mensah, United States of America v. Giboney:

The second video, entitled "[bibcam]in the right place.avi", is approximately eleven minutes and twenty-six seconds in duration.

2018 June 6, Lojs H. Goodman, United States of America v. Matthew Wolny:

a work of child pornography containing a webcam video of a boy


strip cell

It was in February 1980 and I'd been beaten by guards and called a "little fag" and thrown into a strip cell and left there for days, cold.

1983 December 10, Mike Riegle, quoting James Sipes, “Sexual Politics of "Crime": Inside and Out”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 21, page 5:

A barren prison cell in which a prisoner is kept without clothing, sheets, etc.


advance fee fraud

advance fee fraud (countable and uncountable, plural advance fee frauds)

(criminology) Any type of fraud involving an advance fee scam.


hit a stain

en-verb

hit a stain (third-person singular simple present hits a stain, present participle hitting a stain or hittin' a stain, simple past and past participle hit a stain)

hits a stain (present singular third-person)
hitting a stain (participle present)
hittin' a stain (participle present)
hit a stain (participle past)
hit a stain (past)

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Baby girl what's your name? / Let me talk to you and let's go hit a stain

2017, Lil Tecca (lyrics and music), “Toyota”:

There's a time that I remember / When my brothers hit a stain

2022 May 1, ME3CH (lyrics and music), “MAROON .45”:

I just hit a stain and dropped the pack off

2022 October 19, Lil Mosey (lyrics and music), “Drop Top”, in UNI, track 2:

(African-American Vernacular) To commit armed robbery.


whole life order

en-noun

whole life order (plural whole life orders)

(England, Wales, criminal law) A type of life imprisonment reserved for the most serious cases, in which the convict is not eligible for parole or conditional release.


rape alarm

From rape + alarm. First use appears c. 1977 in the Los Angeles Times.

(informal, criminology) A portable alarm which, when activated, emits a shrill sound, alerting others that the user is in danger of rape or assault.


tactical contact

tactical contact (countable and uncountable, plural tactical contacts)

(countable) An instance of such ramming.


child sex crime

child sex crime (plural child sex crimes)

Coordinate term: child sexual abuse

Dozens of foreigners have been jailed for child sex crimes or deported to face trial in their home countries since Cambodia launched an anti-pedophilia push in 2003, to try to shake off its reputation as a haven for sex predators.

2010 March 20, “Police say Australian arrested for child sex in Cambodia”, in The Australian:

(criminal law) Sexual act involving juvenile victims.


identity broker

identity broker (plural identity brokers)

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(law, criminology, uncommon) A service or other intermediary that provides a client with a means of forming or constructing a new identity, usually a false one.


STAR

Special Task and Rescue
w:Special Task and Rescue

(Malaysia, law enforcement, nautical) Acronym of Special Task and Rescue.

w:Special Tactics and Rescue (Singapore)

(Singapore, law enforcement) Acronym of Special Tactics and Rescue.


attitude-adjuster

(US, slang, law enforcement) A nightstick or any type of club.


stolen goods

(law, criminology) Any goods or other property that have been obtained, carried off, or abstracted by means of a crime.


right to silence

right to silence (plural rights to silence)

(law, criminology) A legal principle guaranteeing any individual the right to refuse to answer questions from law enforcement officers or court officials.


Myrotvorets

Borrowed from Ukrainian Миротворець (Myrotvorecʹ, literally “Peacemaker”).

bor+

This estimate is contested by the estimates of the Ukrainian pro-governmental website Mirotvorets, which regularly publishes data of identified separatists. Mirotvorets puts the total number of Russian foreign fighters, excluding regular military, at around 50-80,000. However, there is one common thread in the numbers provided by the Union of Donbass Volunteers and Mirotvorets:[…]

2017 May 30, Kacper Rekawek, Not Only Syria? The Phenomenon of Foreign Fighters in a Comparative Perspective, IOS Press, →ISBN, page 64:

But within hours, Myrotvorets (or Peacemaker), a Ukrainian website with close ties to law enforcement agencies and hackers, “blacklisted” them in their online database of more than 130,000 names – because the plane was bound for Russia-annexed Crimea.

2019 August 27, Mansur Mirovalev, “Peacemaker: The Ukrainian website shaming pro-Russia voices”, in Al Jazeera, archived from the original on 2022-04-24:

I had asked him about the Myrotvorets (Peacemaker) organization, which hosts a database he described as a political instrument for counterterrorism in Ukraine. Launched in December 2014, Myrotvorets collects personal information about people believed to be conspiring against the country.[…]Myrotvorets and its separatist counterpart Tribunal offer concrete examples of the difficulties of researching politicized contexts like war.

2023 December 6, Ilmari Käihkö, "Slava Ukraini!": Strategy and the Spirit of Ukrainian Resistance, 2014-2023, Helsinki University Press, →ISBN, page 32:

(Internet) A Ukrainian government-backed website that publishes a running list, and often personal information, of people who are considered by authors of the website to be enemies of Ukraine.


traffic lead

(Philippines, law enforcement) unarmed traffic police


elder abuse

Coordinate term: child abuse

(criminology) Physical, sexual or emotional mistreatment of an elderly person.


number coding

(Philippines, law enforcement) A policy in some urban areas where vehicles with plate numbers ending in a particular number are barred from using the main streets on a particular pre-assigned day to reduce traffic.


RBPF

Royal Brunei Police Force
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(Brunei, law enforcement) Initialism of Royal Brunei Police Force (“Polis Diraja Brunei”)


racial profile

(public policy, law enforcement) An estimation or generalization about the behavior of a group based on their appearance, skin color, hair texture, or clothing.


racially-profile

en-verb

racially-profile (third-person singular simple present racially-profiles, present participle racially-profiling, simple past and past participle racially-profiled)

racially-profiles (present singular third-person)
racially-profiling (participle present)
racially-profiled (participle past)
racially-profiled (past)

(transitive, law enforcement, public policy) To engage in racial profiling; to act as a racial profiler.


check washing

(law, criminology) The process of erasing details from a check to allow it to be rewritten, usually for criminal purposes such as fraudulent withdrawal from the victim's bank account.


keeplock

I was sentenced to 90 days 'keep-lock' in order 'to deter other inmates from disobeying an order to urinate.'

1989 December 17, Edward Inman, “Disobeying An Order To Piss Lands Transsexual In Isolation”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 23, page 5:

Total or near-total confinement to a prisoner to their cell.


patrol officer

(law enforcement) A member of a local or state law enforcement agency who patrols a particular area.


kwalliso

A labour and concentration camp operated by North Korea, especially used for political prisoners.


kyohwaso

A prison in North Korea used as a reeducation camp.


Panama Papers

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(business, journalism, crime) A trove of leaked documents that were published in 2016.


forcible entry

en-noun

forcible entry (plural forcible entries)

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(law, criminology) The unlawful seizure of the possession of real property by force or threats of force or an unlawful entry into or onto another's property, especially when accompanied by force.


tickle the wire

en-verb

tickle the wire (third-person singular simple present tickles the wire, present participle tickling the wire, simple past and past participle tickled the wire)

tickles the wire (present singular third-person)
tickling the wire (participle present)
tickled the wire (participle past)
tickled the wire (past)

(criminology, law enforcement, idiomatic) To create a situation that will encourage the target of a criminal probe to speak and divulge information on a wiretapped telephone.


paper tripping

The information of the European Common Market has created a paper-tripping paradise.

At one time, false documents were commonly referred to as simply fake IDs, and the act of passing oneself off as another character was known as paper tripping.

2012, Hank Prunckun, Henry W. Prunckun, Counterintelligence Theory and Practice, page 114:

Garnet explains in fine detail to Candice that, back in the day, it was possible to change your identification successfully but it was illegal. They called it paper tripping and it is still illegal today.

2013, Kirby Edwards, Carry Your Name - Drive Your Purpose, page 63:

Paper tripping, also known as ghosting, is a form of identity theft in a person stealing the identity of a specific deceased person.

2022, Antonio Brown, How To Disappear For Beginners, page 85:

(criminology, dated, uncommon) A form of identity theft in which a person illicitly obtains a new identity, usually by assuming the identity of a deceased person.


run someone's file

run someone's file (third-person singular simple present runs someone's file, present participle running someone's file, simple past ran someone's file, past participle run someone's file)

runs someone's file (present singular third-person)
running someone's file (participle present)
ran someone's file (past)
run someone's file (participle past)

(informal, idiomatic, criminology) To search through someone's criminal record.


evidence-gathering

(computing, criminology) The collection of potential evidence, which may be present in computer or network logs, on deprecated websites, or the collection of data that is forensically extracted from a computer hard drive.