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throw-down n. “It’s a Saturday night special, judge,” Barrett said. “It’s not a mystery that a gun with no serial numbers is used by criminals. It’s used as a throw-down.” [English Crime & Prisons Police] [full cite] (Mar. 7, 2005)

throw-down gun n. When McCord realized his mistake, Kallinen contends the deputy may have planted an untraceable “throw-down gun” and emptied Romero’s pockets of other items, including his cell phone. [English Crime & Prisons Firearms Police] [full cite] (Mar. 7, 2005)

throw-down gun n. The City Council unanimously approved a $428,000 settlement Tuesday for a Lousiana woman who sued the city because a “throw-down” gun was planted near her son after he was fatally shot by police. [English Crime & Prisons Firearms Police] [full cite] (Mar. 7, 2005)

throw-down piece n. He also said Reinhold showed some city employees a handgun he called a “throw-down piece,” a weapon he would plant at the scene if an officer shot an unarmed suspect. [English Crime & Prisons Police] [full cite] (Mar. 7, 2005)

tick and flick n. Unallocated offenders are expected to report to a community justice office, where a duty officer, usually with little knowledge of them, ticks them off after asking basic questions—a process known as “tick and flick.” [English Police] [full cite] (Apr. 15, 2008)

Toddi n. Another hurdle is a deep skepticism within the criminal justice system toward people who insist they are clean. “The paperwork is sometimes called a Toddi, for “the other dude did it,"” says Beth Givens, director of the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, in San Diego, which provides guidance to identity-theft victims. The phrase captures the “culture of mistrust around efforts to clear a criminal record.” [ Class Acronym Language English Subject Police] [full cite] (Oct. 13, 2005)

tombstoning n. Stephen D. Parsley was sentenced late last month on two misdemeanor charges of tampering with governmental records after he issued multiple-offense citations to two individuals he knew were dead, a practice known as “tombstoning.” [ Language English Subject Crime & Prisons Police] [full cite] (Nov. 3, 2005)

train n. The police call it the Neighborhood Enforcement Stabilization Task Force, a unit charged with aggressively enforcing quality-of-life crimes, but people in the neighborhood ominously refer to it as “the train."…The task force got its nickname because the officers are dispatched into high crime areas and arrive in a caravan, or train, of five to six police cars. [English United States Crime & Prisons Police] [full cite] (Jul. 15, 2004)

traveler n. Since January alone, federal and local authorities have arrested 17 “travelers"—a name coined by law enforcement officials to describe men who make the leap from sexually soliciting a minor online to meeting them face to face. [English Police Jargon] [full cite] (Aug. 5, 2005)

traveler n. Almost every day police or federal agents arrest what they call a “traveler,” a sexual predator who uses the Web not just to ask an underage child for sex, but who also arranges a meeting. [English Police Sex & Sexuality Jargon] [full cite] (Apr. 2, 2006)

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