Catchword: throw down

Filed under: English, Crime & Prisons, Police

Part of speech: n.

Quotation: I know I didn’t carry it and I know that nobody that I ever worked with—and I went to the academy in 1980 and hit the streets in 1981. Nobody had a throw-down gun.…if you don’t know the difference between a backup gun and a throw-down, you have no business talking on this show, sir.…If we were all carrying these throw-down weapons, we would have been planting guns instead of saying, “Yep, I made a mistake.”

Article or Document Title:
“Talk of the Nation: Analysis: Growing problem of police misconduct and its impact on effective policing”

Author:
David Klinger

Article, document, publication, web site:
NPR

Date of publication:
Feb. 15, 2000

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