I'd love to see the list of "standardized terms."

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/11/18/cop.codes.ap/index.html

"standardized terms" really fell more into the "plain speak" type of language - or at least that was how it was "demonstrated" by the VSP last week, on the WRC NBC 4 news program where the story was relayed.

CB talk is so 70's ;-)

So after speaking in 10 codes forever now they have to change. Why? With the demographics changing all over the place 10 codes would be so much easier for everyone to learn and memorize rather than some cleaned up politically correct and perfect phraseology. I can just see a cop taking the time out to say "hello, there is an animal uhhhh carcass in the road." Carcass is an awfully big word for a lot of people. The 10-codes may be so 70’s back then when it was cool for everybody to have a CB radio, but when the CB radio fad was over, the 10-codes were still in use. It takes a lot longer to say a whole sentence than it does to say a 10-code, and 10-codes are much more easily understood than someone who doesn’t speak with a radio announcer's clarity.

Or speaks English as a second language...

Carcass is an awfully big word for a lot of people.

Uhhh maybe I guess, but hopefully not for the type of people who become cops.

>Carcass is an awfully big word for a lot of people.

>Uhhh maybe I guess, but hopefully not for the type of people who become cops.

Eh? Personally, I’d rather have a cop who is better at enforcing the laws and taking care of rapists and other creeps than being an English professor. I also hope he/she is better at handling a gun than handling grammar.

No offense Lasuena, but it doesn't take an english professor to understand the word "carcass". Granted, you're using an example there with "carcass", but most of the words cops are gonna use are from the standard of english taught in schools and used in everyday life.

Personally, I'd rather have a cop that understands common words like "carcass", before they're even hired to the force or issued a gun.

I think the code for animal carcass is LWIII (Loudoun Wainwright III)

Dead skunk in the middle of the road....there's a dead skunk in the middle of the road.....

Awww shit...now I'm gonna be singing that all fuckin night...

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> I can just see a cop taking the time out to say
> "hello, there is an animal uhhhh carcass in the
> road." Carcass is an awfully big word for a lot
> of people.

how about "dead animal". carcass is not a big word. if you stopped hanging out with retards, you would realize that.


"the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish."

I think it is to help since the radio systems today can talk from one jurisdiction to the other. The plain language helps each to understand the other as in this clip
http://youtube.com/watch?v=XfbYpUWMwm4

why do you use words like 'difficult' and 'conflict'? Kinda hard to understand though idnit?

There are too many instances where F sounds like S, P like D or E, M like N, C like S, people have accents, too many are from different countries whose English is real hard to understand (try calling Linksys tech support sometime). Next they will have to learn the phonetic alphabet, and a set of standardized phrases. I just think it's a bad idea and that they should stick to 10-codes, which is easily understood.

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> I just think it's a
> bad idea and that they should stick to 10-codes,
> which is easily understood.

your thoughts are duly ignored.


"the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish."

I wonder what they will call a gang related machete incident?

Up in NY, they call anything with blacks involved a Code 2.
Weapons and billy clubs usually get drawn.

A 10-100 in Maryland may mean "officer shot", while in Virginia a 10-100 may mean "grabbing a doughnut."

The concern is that if MD,DC and VA PD departments were working together on some terrorist attack they would be all be confused as to if officers are eating doughnuts or somebody got shot.

Lasuena Wrote:
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> There are too many instances where F sounds like
> S, P like D or E, M like N, C like S, people have
> accents, too many are from different countries
> whose English is real hard to understand (try
> calling Linksys tech support sometime). Next they
> will have to learn the phonetic alphabet, and a
> set of standardized phrases.


They are already trained how to use the phonetic alphabet, its how they run license plates. And people's last names at times.

it has always been common practice to use common lanquage when speaking to another jurisdiction, NOT the 10 codes

>A 10-100 in Maryland may mean "officer shot", while in Virginia a 10-100 may mean "grabbing a doughnut."

>The concern is that if MD,DC and VA PD departments were working together on some terrorist attack they would be all be confused as to if officers are eating doughnuts or somebody got shot.

That's a superb analogy. I really like people can explain things so well. 10-100 is also a pit stop. I always thought the codes were pretty well standard across the board. Now I see the light.

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