Police Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

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bullet sponge n. You get three kinds of cops: The loose cannon loner who follows his own rules, the ineffective bigoted fat redneck, and the bullet sponges who couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn and have the IQ of Dan Quayle.…Noone (except maybe the bullet sponges) ever has to worry about wether the training they recieved is going to be enough in those few moments of terror they may have to face one day. [English Police Slang] [full cite] (Oct. 17, 2006)

bump line n. If still unsuccessful, the town’s fire department amasses all of their volunteers, the police department ropes off a perimeter of the surrounding area and the search volunteers form what is known as a “bump line,” said McCarron. This group assembled into the “bump line” then searches the area by grid sections while police patrol the area by squad car. [English Police] [full cite] (Oct. 17, 2006)

burner n. He said he had had an altercation on Zion Street the previous morning with a man who had threatened him, saying, “You better keep your burner on you tonight.” “Burner” is a slang expression for a gun. [English United States Police] [full cite] (Dec. 13, 2004)

buy bust n. At the time of the Aug. 11, 2005, bust, members of the Marin Major Crimes Task Force already had purchased 400 pills from Marquez. They arranged to buy 2,000 pills for $10,000 in a transaction known to investigators as the “buy bust.” [English Drugs Police Jargon] [full cite] (May. 4, 2006)

car clout n. Berkeley car owners reported a rash of car clouts—copspeak for auto burglaries—jumping from three on Thursday to 16 Friday, nine Saturday, and 11 Sunday. [English Crime & Prisons Police] [full cite] (Aug. 22, 2005)

car clout n. UC Berkeley police have issued a car clout alert. Car clouters—burglars who rob cars—have been busily at work on campus over the past month, reports campus Police Chief Victoria Harrison. Between Feb. 21 and March 21, police recorded 13 car clouts on university property, most of them in the southern and eastern parts of the campus. [English Automobiles & Transportation Crime & Prisons Police] [full cite] (Oct. 24, 2007)

car hopping n. In fact, they said the act is commonly known to them as car hopping. The act itself involves people looking to break into cars, going from one car to another and looking for one that’s unlocked, then stealing what they can find inside. [English Automobiles & Transportation Crime & Prisons Police Slang] [full cite] (Oct. 12, 2007)

cardboard cop n. South Yorkshire Police want to increase the numbers of police community support officers…, commonly known as “cardboard cops” or “plastic police” within the service. [ Language English Register Slang Subject Police] [full cite] (Dec. 11, 2005)

care bear n. Sitting in his squad car on the westbound lane of Interstate 70 near Troy, Illinois State Trooper Scott Becker wasn’t getting a lot of chances to write speeding tickets.…Becker was just there to let the drivers know that he cared—one of the reasons CBers refer to them as “care bears.” [English Police Slang] [full cite] (May. 24, 2007)

cave cop n. John Finley 3rd joined the New York City Transit Police in 1990 before it was merged into the NYPD in 1995, in what the old Transit “cave cops” still refer to as a “hostile takeover.” Today, John Finley 3rd works for Highway 2 in Brooklyn, and serves as a union rep. [New York City English Police] [full cite] (Oct. 20, 2006)

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