Earlier tonight on the news I heard a police officer say to an interviewer:
"From what I've been able to ascertune, it never happened."Love that cop talk.
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Friday, September 2, 2011
Friday, February 4, 2011
Cop talk: it's a special language
I happened to catch the following on TV and through the miracle of TiVo, was able to play it back to ensure that I recorded the words faithfully.
At a press conference, a police spokesperson was answering questions about an elderly couple who had been brutally murdered.
The reporter asked, "Were they killed with a hammer?"
And the police spokesperson replied:
I love this stuff. They have their very own language. I get a kick out of hearing the self-conscious, tortured phrasing they come up with. Their words are an attempt to put a police shroud over everything, to claim the death as their own. So they make things as opaque as possible and sound ridiculous doing so. Still, it's kinda cute.
At a press conference, a police spokesperson was answering questions about an elderly couple who had been brutally murdered.
The reporter asked, "Were they killed with a hammer?"
And the police spokesperson replied:
"A hammer was, in fact, an instrumentality causing blunt trauma injuries to both of the deceaseds."
I love this stuff. They have their very own language. I get a kick out of hearing the self-conscious, tortured phrasing they come up with. Their words are an attempt to put a police shroud over everything, to claim the death as their own. So they make things as opaque as possible and sound ridiculous doing so. Still, it's kinda cute.
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