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Rough Justice 37: t made no difference whether the person who beat the subway fare or stole stockings from Macy’s was a college student or a junkie.at beat, v.
Rough Justice 37: t made no difference whether the person who beat the subway fare or stole stockings from Macy’s was a college student or a junkie. Rough Justice 112: Each stapled packet of forms, boilerplate motions, and complaints represented a phase of a person’s life.at boilerplate, n.
Rough Justice 212: Was Steven Peel [...] part of a burgeoning ring of high-class thieves with inside connections at American Express?at connection, n.
Rough Justice 275: He was one of those officers who had an unsettling vigilante streak—a cowboy.at cowboy, n.
Rough Justice 31: The officers who took me out explained that I was being given cream-puff treatment: no heavy radio runs to shootouts or raids, just a nice, safe patrol.at cream-puff, adj.
Rough Justice 225: The cop, a quiet, slender man with a slightly effeminate manner, allayed my worries about abusive or crude questioning of the victim. Compared to the usual members of the force, he was a creampuff.at cream puff, n.1
Rough Justice 29: In dropsy cases, officers justify a search by the oldest of means: they lie about the facts. As I was coming around the corner I saw the defendant drop the drugs on the sidewalk, so I arrested him.at dropsy, n.2
Rough Justice 274: People without criminal records were promised probation, but they had to ‘eat’ the felony, taking the step from solid citizen to convicted felon.at eat, v.
Rough Justice 112: I had become a different person from the rookie who offered sixty days for a farebeat before Judge Friedland.at farebeat, n.
Rough Justice 13: Auto boosters breaking into cars on ill-lit side streets with slimjims and slaphammers.at Slim Jim, n.
Rough Justice 63: Named after lobstermen, who go to work in the early-morning hours, lobster is the midnight-to-eight-AM shift.at lobster shift (n.) under lobster, n.1
Rough Justice 30: When we come walking down the block, the mopes all try to get rid of whatever they’re holding. It’s incredible. Maybe they think that if the stuff isn’t found on them they can’t be charged.at mope, n.2
Rough Justice 212: Was Steven Peel a low-level dealer in hot paper or part of a burgeoning ring of high-class thieves with inside connections at American Express?at hot paper (n.) under paper, n.
Rough Justice 5: ‘Do you think she might go out of the picture?’ ‘Nah,’ the officer laughed. ‘They just stitched her up in the ER and I gave her a ride home’.at go out of the picture (v.) under picture, n.
Rough Justice 208: [T]he only sensible decision was to charge the most serious illegal act: Robbery in the Second Degree [...] I read the statute for Rob 2 and left the [grand jury] room.at rob, n.
Rough Justice 254: The case is a lock, a rock-crusher.at rock crusher (n.) under rock, n.
Rough Justice 203: [A] fellow officer who won a gold shield because he had a ‘hook’ in the department.at shield, n.
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