Sentence examples for half the cops from inspiring English sources

"If there was a rule you couldn't use those kind of techniques, half the cops would have to turn in their shields," Mr. Sommer said.

"Half the cops in America carry a Taser as well as a gun," says Rick Smith, Taser's boss.Having come to dominate what Mr Smith calls the "less-lethal weapon space", Taser has begun a burst of rapid-fire innovation that could, he believes, turn it into a business with sales of $1 billion a year ten times its current size.

What some investors might not realize, though, is that when it comes to the securities field, almost half the cops are paid for by the industry itself.

A colleague's assessment of Cindy Decker -- She's young, she's female, she's smart, and she has a big mouth" -- doesn't begin to describe the career problems of this imprudent rebel, who alienates half the cops in her department and foolishly keeps it a secret when some unknown enemy starts stalking her.

"He made Virginia Rappe into this virginal victim, when in fact she had given half the Keystone Cops gonorrhea and the other half lice and had been a prostitute since she was 14.

Before, every half-hour the cops come in for a cup of coffee.

"In the lower half of Wenceslas Square, the cops don't want money; they're always changing and you can't pay them off.

While the organizer was accustomed to visits from the cops ("About half of my parties got shut down"), their arrival this this night would be disturbingly different.

A black-clad young man with a long, glossy braid and a bandanna draped over the lower half of his face gives the cops the finger.

Half of the crew was in the apartment with the person who called the cops and the other half was causing a little scene.

The cops are there, half the neighborhood too.