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| Can you explain all this cop talk (lingo) that they use in the show? BACK IN THE BAG: Back in uniform CATCH/CAUGHT: To have a case assigned CATVAN: An RV filled with Uniformed Emergency Service Personnel C.I.: Confidential informant CLOSER: A police interrogator who specializes in finishing an interrogation and getting a confession COLLAR: An arrest DISCON: Disorderly conduct DOA: Any dead person, murdered or otherwise DUMP: Transferred (in a negative direction) FLOATER: Dead body in the water HOUSE: Station house IN THE BAG: In uniform IN THE WIND: In hiding JACKPOT: In trouble LAWYERING UP: Obtaining legal counsel LOST TIME: Personal time taken while working MAKE YOUR BONES: Achieve success (on the Job) PAA: Police Administrative Assistant PERP: Perpetrator, criminal (also MOPE or MUTT) POKEY: Cell RAT SQUAD: Internal Affairs Bureau (IAB) RMP: Radio Motor Patrol (marked police car) SKEL: A lowlife; a junkie SLIPPAGE TOUR: Two extra days owed to the city T.A.R.U.: Technical Assistance Response Unit THE FIVES: Complaint follow-up report THE JOB: The New York Police Department THE RACK: A bed THE SYSTEM: The legal justice system |