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23rd Precinct 151: If you write a lot of summonses—forty or fifty—are you a horse’s ass?at horse’s ass, n.
23rd Precinct 151: If you write a lot of summonses—forty or fifty—are you a horse’s ass? 23rd Precinct 65: ‘Someone said that there were eighty people killed [at a major fire]. I said, ‘Stop BS-ing me’.at b.s., v.
23rd Precinct 136: The four cops walk to their cars just as a blockbuster goes off down the block. Two times the size of a M-80 firecracker, its power is equivalent to a quarter stick of dynamite.at blockbuster, n.1
23rd Precinct 102: ‘I find it absolutely absurd,’ she says angrily, ‘after I broke my ass [along] with all the females who broke down barriers’.at break one’s ass (v.) under break, v.1
23rd Precinct 88: ‘The captain, he’s not one of the guys. He buffaloes people, he bullies people’.at buffalo, v.
23rd Precinct 75: ‘Police? I don’t mess with those guys. [...] They’ll come and harm you if you don’t have nothing’.at bugged, adj.1
23rd Precinct 102: ‘Any whining piss-ass woman would have been chop meat back then’.at chop(ped) meat, n.
23rd Precinct 88: The hook could be a friend or relative in the Police Department, or a connection who can pull strings.at connection, n.
23rd Precinct 35: Another team let Central know that they were responding to a job, but stopped and got coffee or a sandwich first. A few cops identified the cooping locations and used them.at coop, v.
23rd Precinct 60: ‘We’ve spent hours trying to crack some of our homicide perps. You use every technique to get them to give it up’ .at crack, v.2
23rd Precinct 67: ‘Nobody likes to smell a DOA. The smell stays with you’.at d.o.a., n.
23rd Precinct 180: ‘If they know someone is going to get jammed up [for drinking], the first thing the PBA [Police Benevolent Association] says is, “Go to the farm”’.at farm, n.1
23rd Precinct 97: She often scrubs down the bathroom with ammonia and cleans sinks, stalls, and showers. ‘I can’t help it. I’m a neat freak’.at -freak, sfx
23rd Precinct 54: ‘If the DA is nice and professional, you go that extra yard. If the DA wants to play games and have an attitude, you can ask the DA not to put the case on’.at play games (v.) under game, n.
23rd Precinct 60: ‘We’ve spent hours trying to crack some of our homicide perps. You use every technique to get them to give it up’ .at give it up, v.
23rd Precinct 111: ‘They think you take sides,’ she says, shaking her head. ‘I’ve had perps call me homo, ‘That fuckin’ homo hooked me up’.at homo, n.2
23rd Precinct 86: Transfers off of patrol into special details [...] are often made on the basis of a hook. The hook could be a friend or relative in the Police Department, or a connection who can pull strings.at hook, n.1
23rd Precinct 72: ‘One man was using fourteen- and fifteen-year-old kids that we couldn’t lock up for sale’.at lock up, v.
23rd Precinct 12: Older teenagers hang around, boys gathering on corners with boom boxes; girls model up and down Third Avenue for them.at model, v.
23rd Precinct 150: ‘We were the second or third group of minorities. There was a lot of resentment from the older whites, the Irish and Italian guys. A lot didn’t want to talk to you or listen to you. They had fifteen, twenty years on’.at on, adv.1
23rd Precinct 206: He steps on the gas and they roll through the dark streets.at step on the gas (v.) under step on, v.
23rd Precinct 132: Children as young as ten, called ‘Pee Wees,’ are recruited as lookouts [for street dug markets].at pee-wee, n.2
23rd Precinct 102: ‘I think of what I had to take, to be minutely accepted. It wasn’t acceptance, it wasn’t tolerance. [...] Any whining piss-ass woman would have been chop meat back then’.at pissy-ass (adj.) under pissy, adj.1
23rd Precinct 8: [W]hen a group of junkies is brought in [...] the air becomes foul with body odor [...] ‘Hey, we got a ripe one in here!’ shouts the desk sergeant.at ripe, adj.
23rd Precinct 134: [A] young couple leans on a car, groping each other. Aliberti leans out the window and shouts, ‘Get a room!’.at get a room! (excl.) under room, n.
23rd Precinct 206: [T]hey roll through the dark streets, occasionally spotting the lights of a patrol car at another intersection. One pulls up alongside theirs. Sergeant Kennedy has to sign—"scratch"—their memo books.at scratch, v.
23rd Precinct 15: ‘This block is a problem, ‘ he says as he turned in a slow circle. ‘The smoke shops sell marijuana’.at smoke shop (n.) under smoke, n.
23rd Precinct 109: ‘I told him to put his hands out where I can see them. I give him a toss’.at toss, n.2
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