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=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Coptalk_#94:_=91NHI'_=96_=91No_Humans_Involved'?=
An expression I just heard on the TV, for the first time. (Or, at least, for the first time that registered).
It is, I find, a police euphemism in the US (elsewhere?) for crimes (more specifically, homicide) where the victim is from a population group deemed unworthy in constabulary circles of the ?old college try'.
Applied, for instance, to prostitutes (1) and blacks (2), and others, no doubt. Sometimes, it even gets written on files, it seems (like DNR ? Do Not Resuscitate ? on the charts of patients (in UK) whom, it has been agreed, the medicoes ought not to strive officiously to keep alive).
(Earlier coptalk piece (3).)
(The second reference is to a case in Torrance, CA. The same town whose high school (4) stood in for exterior and some other shots of the high school in ?Buffy the Vampire Slayer' (5). Small world?)
(1) http://www.christinestark.net/EssayNoHumansInvolved.htm (2) http://thedagger.com/thedagger/dag zine/nhi.html and zine/nhi2.html
(3) http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=d7fa3848.0306011414.166e17d9%40posting.google.com&rnum=1 (4) http://www.torrancehigh.com/home.shtml
(5) http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/buffy/interviews/davies/page3.shtml
It is, I find, a police euphemism in the US (elsewhere?) for crimes (more specifically, homicide) where the victim is from a population group deemed unworthy in constabulary circles of the ?old college try'.
Applied, for instance, to prostitutes (1) and blacks (2), and others, no doubt. Sometimes, it even gets written on files, it seems (like DNR ? Do Not Resuscitate ? on the charts of patients (in UK) whom, it has been agreed, the medicoes ought not to strive officiously to keep alive).
(Earlier coptalk piece (3).)
(The second reference is to a case in Torrance, CA. The same town whose high school (4) stood in for exterior and some other shots of the high school in ?Buffy the Vampire Slayer' (5). Small world?)
(1) http://www.christinestark.net/EssayNoHumansInvolved.htm (2) http://thedagger.com/thedagger/dag zine/nhi.html and zine/nhi2.html
(3) http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=d7fa3848.0306011414.166e17d9%40posting.google.com&rnum=1 (4) http://www.torrancehigh.com/home.shtml
(5) http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/buffy/interviews/davies/page3.shtml
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) for crimes (more specifically, homicide) where the victim ... old college try'. Applied, for instance, to prostitutes (1) and blacks (2), and others, no doubt.
- ) for crimes (more specifically, homicide) where the victim ...
- old college try'.
- Applied, for instance, to prostitutes (1) and blacks (2), and others, no doubt.
- [/nq] And on the flip-side we have this from the movie "Reservoir Dogs": MR.
- PINK I tagged a couple of cops.
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(re "No Humans Involved")
[nq:1] It is, I find, a police euphemism in the US (elsewhere?) for crimes (more specifically, homicide) where the victim ... circles of the ?old college try'. Applied, for instance, to prostitutes (1) and blacks (2), and others, no doubt. [/nq]
And on the flip-side we have this from the movie "Reservoir Dogs":
MR. PINK
I tagged a couple of cops. Did
[nq:1] It is, I find, a police euphemism in the US (elsewhere?) for crimes (more specifically, homicide) where the victim ... circles of the ?old college try'. Applied, for instance, to prostitutes (1) and blacks (2), and others, no doubt. [/nq]
And on the flip-side we have this from the movie "Reservoir Dogs":
MR. PINK
I tagged a couple of cops. Did
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[nq:1] like DNR ? Do Not Resuscitate ? on the charts of patients (in UK) whom, it has been agreed, the medicoes ought not to strive officiously to keep alive).[/nq]
In the US, the "it has been agreed" would better be described as "the patient has ordered." If you are admitted into a hospital, you are asked whether you wish to be revived in case of your heart failing. (I was asked this myself,
In the US, the "it has been agreed" would better be described as "the patient has ordered." If you are admitted into a hospital, you are asked whether you wish to be revived in case of your heart failing. (I was asked this myself,
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[nq:1]And on the flip-side we have this from the movie "Reservoir Dogs": MR. PINK I tagged a couple of cops. Did you kill anybody? MR. WHITE A few cops. MR. PINK No real people? MR. WHITE Just cops.[/nq]
"It warn't the grounding that didn't keep us back but a little. We blowed out a cylinder head."
"Good gracious! Anybody hurt?"
"No'm. Killed a ***."
"Well, it's lucky, because some
"It warn't the grounding that didn't keep us back but a little. We blowed out a cylinder head."
"Good gracious! Anybody hurt?"
"No'm. Killed a ***."
"Well, it's lucky, because some
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[nq:2]And on the flip-side we have this from the movie ... cops. MR. PINK No real people? MR. WHITE Just cops.[/nq]
[nq:1]"It warn't the grounding that didn't keep us back but a little. We blowed out a cylinder head." "Good gracious! Anybody hurt?" "No'm. Killed a ***." "Well, it's lucky, because sometimes people do get hurt.." Huckleberry Finn [/nq]
Ladies and Gentlemen! Africans and thei
[nq:1]"It warn't the grounding that didn't keep us back but a little. We blowed out a cylinder head." "Good gracious! Anybody hurt?" "No'm. Killed a ***." "Well, it's lucky, because sometimes people do get hurt.." Huckleberry Finn [/nq]
Ladies and Gentlemen! Africans and thei
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