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Crime Fighter 176: [J]unkies [...] weren’t about to keep spending their twenty or forty bucks at a location where they were getting beat heroin.at beat, adj.
Crime Fighter 176: [J]unkies [...] weren’t about to keep spending their twenty or forty bucks at a location where they were getting beat heroin. Crime Fighter 97: I wanted them to beep me any time we had a homicide.at beep, v.
Crime Fighter 175: Cops get boners just thinking about acting as a decoy, wearing a wire, conducting a buy-and-bust [etc].at boner, n.4
Crime Fighter 13: Seven hours a day, I watched robbers and bag snatchers and pickpockets pass through the subway turnstiles on their way upstairs to where the money was [...] I was more than a cave cop.at cave cop (n.) under cave, n.1
Crime Fighter 103: [used as a neg.] Maybe the Mac Daddy of all ‘blue walls of silence’ is the one that normally separates the Narcotics Division from the Detective Bureau.at mack daddy, n.
Crime Fighter 44: Gregory Gadson was the worst pickpocket in the world [...] so awkward he almost never finished digging a pocket before the victim was staring him straight in the eyes.at dig, v.1
Crime Fighter 38: In policing, we often talk about who within a department is ‘in the game,’ meaning which cops are really in the business of catching crooks.at game, n.
Crime Fighter 141: In Brooklyn, we knew the idea would work; here [in New Orleans] we were throwing a Hail Mary pass.at Hail Mary, adj.
Crime Fighter 232: To limit [. . .] the number of times a crook carrying guns, drugs, or a pocketful of cash ‘gets a haircut’ before he’s delivered to the station house, every prisoner should be given a receipt [etc].at haircut, n.1
Crime Fighter 219: [T]he kids who huffed floor wax didn’t even bother trying to argue.at huff, v.
Crime Fighter 226: When that cop goes to court, he won’t even be tempted to ‘testi-lie’.at test-I-lie, v.
Crime Fighter 100: [M]uch of the intel about crime that the department had in its possession was as good as lost to most of the people who could use it.at intel, n.
Crime Fighter 21: The more we poked at it [i.e. the police department], the wormier it looked. Operationally, she was a junker.at junker, n.
Crime Fighter 218: I once had a prisoner launch a lungee right into my eye as I was putting cuffs on him.at lunger, n.
Crime Fighter 216: [W]e had to be vigilant to prevent other officers from ‘mussing up’ our own prisoners.at muss up, v.
Crime Fighter 133: When police commanders identify a crime or serious quality-of-life problem [...] they should send enough people to take it out.at take out, v.
Crime Fighter 104: We couldn’t just present this evidence to the detectives and Narcotics and ask them to play nice together; we forced the issue.at play nice (v.) under play, v.
Crime Fighter 60: [S]he answered the door wearing a nightgown and another three diamonds, then asked why he’d bother locking her up for ‘slum’ When he told her each ring was worth about $30,000, she gasped.at slum, n.3
Crime Fighter 45: [P]lenty of customers were willing to pay for the [...] high of ‘spitback’—an orange juice-like concoction that the methadone users manufactured by spitting out their daily ration from the clinics.at spitback, n.
Crime Fighter 216: Judges who reduced charges and sentenced people to ‘time served’ would sometimes note—with approval—that ‘street justice’ had already been administered.at street justice under street, adj.
Crime Fighter 103: If you asked the detectives if they talked to Narcotics about these cases, they’d stroke you by saying, ‘We work very, very closely together’.at stroke, v.2
Crime Fighter 55: If there was any chance your crew was going to do a robbery, you brought along a ‘throwaway"—a shirt or Jacket that could be pulled on before the crime and tossed aside after it.at throwaway, n.
Crime Fighter 149: [A]ddict prostitutes trading tricks on the next street over.at trade, v.
Crime Fighter 159: [C]ops should also be trained to spot traps inside the cars—behind the dashboard vents, under the accelerator pedal [...] where guns or drugs are often hidden.at trap, n.1
Crime Fighter 61: I picked Rondell up on a want.at want, n.
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