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(con. mid-1960s) Crusader 62: The uniform was known as the ‘bag.’ The ambition of almost every rookie cop who had any was to ‘get a seat’—a regularly assigned place in a sector car—and then, if possible, to ‘get out of the bag’.at bag, n.1
(con. mid-1960s) Crusader 62: The uniform was known as the ‘bag.’ The ambition of almost every rookie cop who had any was to ‘get a seat’—a regularly assigned place in a sector car—and then, if possible, to ‘get out of the bag’. (con. mid-1960s) Crusader 279: ‘We were burned—somebody tipped them off that we were coming!’ [Investigator] Stanton declared.at burn, v.
(con. mid-1960s) Crusader 291: Jerry was an old-fashioned buttlegger who made a living driving carloads of cigarettes from the town of Rocky Mount, North Carolina, to various used-car lots in Brooklyn.at buttlegger (n.) under butt, n.1
(con. mid-1960s) Crusader 331: [T]he prisoner will laugh at the cop. ‘You’re chump change, Jack,’ he’ll say.at chump change, n.
Crusader 133: Historically, New York City cops had made a distinction between ‘clean’ money, involving gambling, blue law, and liquor violations, and ‘dirty money,’ involving prostitution, drugs [...] and more serious crimes.at clean, adj.
Crusader 169: There were six [undercover anti-corruption] police officers in all: David, Serpico, Delise, and three (a captain, a lieutenant, and a detective) who have yet to come out of the closet.at come out of the closet (v.) under closet, n.
(con. mid-1960s) Crusader 337: Off-duty arrests, and arrests made close to the end of an officer’s shift, had also been discouraged, lest cops be tempted to make arrests solely to generate paid overtime—collars for dollars, as they were called.at collars for dollars (n.) under collar, n.
(con. 1965) Crusader 63: The task of collecting the pad money was shared by the cops regularly assigned to the sector. [...] Boyd informed David that he would have to ‘honor all the contracts’ if he wanted a permanent seat.at contract, n.
(con. mid-1960s) Crusader 108: Gamblers who were on the pad were called ‘cousins’ .at cousin, n.2
(con. mid-1960s) Crusader 133: Historically, New York City cops had made a distinction between ‘clean’ money, involving gambling, blue law, and liquor violations, and ‘dirty money,’ involving prostitution, drugs [...] and more serious crimes.at dirty, adj.
(con. mid-1960s) Crusader 57: Veteran cops advised rookies to carry throwaway knives—knives intended for planting on people.at throw-down, n.
(con. 1970s) Crusader 206: [H]e and his fellow jurists had often talked among themselves about the frequency of ‘dropsy cases,’ in which a defendant supposedly threw drugs or other contraband to the ground in the full view of a pursuing police officer.at dropsy, n.2
(con. 1970s) Crusader 236: McCarthy had his detectives making buys for $25,000 and more, and then flipping the people they arrested in order to go after still-bigger operators.at flip, v.5
(con. 1965) Crusader 67: "I’m supposed to get a flute for Lieutenant Dalton [...] Can you tell me what a flute is?’ The bartender laughed, filled a Coke bottle with Scotch, sealed it with a cork [etc].at flute, n.1
(con. 1979) Crusader 279: ‘Okay, so you blew it,’ the sergeant said [...] David [...] didn’t like the sergeant’s attitude. ‘This case was given up—you know it and I know it,’ he interjected.at give up, v.
(con. mid-1960s) Crusader 261: Many, if not most, hijackings were prearranged affairs, or ‘give-ups’.at give-up, n.
(con. mid-1960s) Crusader 65: As he continued writing summonses, the doorman opened the door of one of the cars [...] ‘If you move that car, you’d better have the license and the registration, or you’re going,’ David warned him.at go, v.
Crusader 142: They were afraid that someone with David’s background would raise a ruckus about extralegal practices—Leuci mentioned the example of ‘gypsy wires,’ or unauthorized wiretaps.at gypsy wire (n.) under gypsy, adj.
(con. 1969) Crusader 129: [H]e pointed out several ‘mills’—apartments and storefronts used for cutting, packaging, and stashing heroin .at mill, n.1
Crusader 192: ‘Durk [...] nudged Frank Serpico to death, and he nudged Bob Leuci to death to get him to come forward’.at nudge, v.2
Crusader 192: ‘Durk is the world’s greatest nudge,’ [...] an assistant DA [...] said later. ‘He nudged Frank Serpico to death, and he nudged Bob Leuci to death to get him to come forward’.at nudge, n.1
(con. 1974) Crusader 242: [of an attractive undercover policewoman] David went to Captain Gertrude Schimmel, the unofficial doyenne of policewomen. ‘I need a real pelt,’ he told her.at pelt, n.
(con. mid-1960s) Crusader 108: Gamblers who were on the pad were called ‘cousins.’ Other gamblers were vulnerable to ‘scores’—one-time bribes [...] to get them out of a particular brush with the law.at score, n.3
(con. mid-1960s) Crusader 66: ‘You are personally going to pay the tag you put on the chef’s Cadillac,’ the sergeant said.at tag, n.3
(con. mid-1960s) Crusader 308: When finance department undercovers made a new round of visits [...] they were turned down.at undercover, n.1
(con. mid-1960s) Crusader 87: [T]he cops ransacked the premises, searching for ‘work’—slips of paper reporting the bets that smaller gamblers had laid off.at work, n.
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