Sentence examples for police language from inspiring English sources

But Yates then muddied the waters by saying the offer was a briefing about police language and protocols in investigations and not about the hacking investigation itself.

She spoke in the same clipped police language as the friend who had first called her. "I said, 'Ma, there was an altercation outside Forbidden City this morning,' " she said.

They then lured their sleazy prey to a house in Nuneaton, where they were filmed as Hunter asked, in a sort of parody of police language, why they'd been sending photos of their genitalia to 12-year-olds.

Against this backdrop, Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly, in a letter last month to housing authority officials, said he had revised the department's rules for how officers patrol up and down inside the public-housing high-rises - something known in police language as vertical patrols.

Conlon is funny on the subject of police language ("the general oddity of cop talk, its shotgun marriage of street slang and legalese"), but woe to the reader who, by Chapter 12, forgets the difference between a P.O. and an O.P., the 61 and the five, a bag and a skell.

What I've now seen are commentators of all backgrounds making it their job to police language by exacting holier than thou decrees with a keyboard.

His close pursuer in the delegate race, Senator Ted Cruz, showing off his talent for cold indifference and lawyerly misrepresentation, said, "If you look at the Black Lives Matter movement, one of the most disturbing things is more than one of their protests have embraced rabid rhetoric, rabid anti-police language, literally suggesting and embracing and celebrating the murder of police officers".

Arizona has run into trouble policing language in the past.

Policing language is never popular and rarely easy.

It's not about policing language, White insists, but having "a call to action" that will make people think twice about using a term that can hurt and exclude so many people.

Coming from someone whose entire body of work is essentially about policing language, the hypocrisy is particularly staggering.