2016 Barer et al. Betrayal in Blue 123: Ken thought Baron was on the arm—police slang for a business owner who doled out favors to the neighborhood cops.at on the arm (adv.) under arm, n.
2016 Barer et al. Betrayal in Blue 138: The owner was a housing cop who welcomed officers [...] More than once the crew and their badge bunnies hooked up for orgies on the pool table.at badge bunny (n.) under badge, n.1
2016 Barer et al. Betrayal in Blue 160: I could feel the air getting tense. Dowd was high and obnoxious, and Tommy was flexing his beer muscles.at beer muscle (n.) under beer, n.
2016 Barer et al. Betrayal in Blue 176: When drug money wasn’t readily available on the streets, cops employed schemes, called ‘Collars-for-Dollars,’ that ratcheted up their overtime hours.at collars for dollars (n.) under collar, n.
2016 Barer et al. Betrayal in Blue 168: [G]ive me a fucking break, this wasn’t mid-town Manhattan, it [i.e. ultra-violent East New York] was the Land of Fuck.at fuck, n.
2016 Barer et al. Betrayal in Blue 138: We go next door, and two young teen boys, brothers, Irish twins, like nine months apart.at Irish twins (n.) under Irish, adj.
2016 Barer et al. Betrayal in Blue 139: [W]e sat on the block until the White Rabbit came home and we got his address.at sit on, v.
2016 Barer et al. Betrayal in Blue 135: NYPD’s massive size made for a large org chart too.at org, n.
2016 Barer et al. Betrayal in Blue 181: The drama of the arrests [i.e. of other corrupt police officers] scared the snot out of Ken.at scare the snot out of (v.) under snot, n.1
2016 Barer et al. Betrayal in Blue 73: In those days cops didn’t think twice about ‘tuning up’ a piece-of-shit perp that well deserved it. Street justice was the rule, not the exception.at street justice under street, adj.
2016 Barer et al. Betrayal in Blue 154: Gordo cut up the heroin, packaged it, and put it on the street.at put in/on the street (v.) under street, the, n.
2016 Barer et al. Betrayal in Blue 73: In those days cops didn’t think twice about ‘tuning up’ a piece-of-shit perp that well deserved it.at tune, v.
2016 Barer et al. Betrayal in Blue 143: [W]hat we had tested 94 percent pure cocaine. At that purity rate I was able to ‘step on it,’ ‘cut it,’ or ‘whack it’ quite a bit.at whack, v.1
2016 Barer et al. Betrayal in Blue 142: Elvis [...] gave him an ounce while we were out on patrol. Mike called it a ‘Z’—short for ounce.at z, n.2