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[US] J. Maple 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.
[US] J. Maple Crime Fighter 97: I wanted them to beep me any time we had a homicide.
at beep, v.
[US] J. Maple 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
[US] J. Maple 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
[US] J. Maple 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.
[US] J. Maple 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
[US] J. Maple 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.
[US] J. Maple 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.
[US] J. Maple 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
[US] J. Maple Crime Fighter 219: [T]he kids who huffed floor wax didn’t even bother trying to argue.
at huff, v.
[US] J. Maple Crime Fighter 226: When that cop goes to court, he won’t even be tempted to ‘testi-lie’.
at test-I-lie, v.
[US] J. Maple 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.
[US] J. Maple 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.
[US] J. Maple 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.
[US] J. Maple Crime Fighter 216: [W]e had to be vigilant to prevent other officers from ‘mussing up’ our own prisoners.
at muss up, v.
[US] J. Maple 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.
[US] J. Maple 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.
[US] J. Maple 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
[US] J. Maple 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.
[US] J. Maple 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.
[US] J. Maple 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
[US] J. Maple 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.
[US] J. Maple Crime Fighter 149: [A]ddict prostitutes trading tricks on the next street over.
at trade, v.
[US] J. Maple 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
[US] J. Maple Crime Fighter 61: I picked Rondell up on a want.
at want, n.
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