{"id":4719,"date":"2004-01-19T09:23:20","date_gmt":"2004-01-19T16:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=4719"},"modified":"2004-01-19T09:23:20","modified_gmt":"2004-01-19T16:23:20","slug":"maybe_if_they_c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/01\/19\/maybe_if_they_c.html","title":{"rendered":"Maybe if they concentrated on catching crooks, first …"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oh, excuse me, the Scottish police officers in question are probably not allowed to use the word “crook,” lest it indicate a prejudgment as to guilt — along with all sorts of other new words and terms that British police are now warned not to use<\/a>, including “old” (as in people), “homosexual” (since it historically implies a mental disorder), “rule of thumb,” and “nitty-gritty.” The latter two are particularly entertaining in their banishment, since it’s based on bogus etymology<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Oh, and don’t even think about using the term “manhole cover” (sexist). Or about asking people (suspects or witnesses alike) if they’re married (potentially offensive to gays).<\/p>\n

Maybe they should just shoot first and ask questions later, when the questionees aren’t around to be offended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oh, excuse me, the Scottish police officers in question are probably not allowed to use the word “crook,” lest it indicate a prejudgment as to guilt — along with all…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-zt-pc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":131498,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/11\/body-cam-storage-costs-are-high-so-some-police-departments-opt-out.html","url_meta":{"origin":4719,"position":0},"title":"Body cam storage costs are high — so some police departments opt out","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 11-Sep-16 12:28am","format":false,"excerpt":"The problem, of course, is that \"good\" police departments are facing significant costs in implementing body cams, especially as states pass laws increasing retention time for the footage -- and that \"bad\" police departments can then use that as an excuse to not use them, leaving critical encounters between police\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":14553,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/04\/15\/because-youre-guilty-until-you-convince-us-youre-innocent.html","url_meta":{"origin":4719,"position":1},"title":"“Because you’re guilty until you convince us you’re innocent”","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 15-Apr-09 9:07pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The TSA's official blog tries to address questions over a recent incident at St Louis International where discovery that a passenger was flying with $4710 in cash triggered some unpleasantness. 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