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Old 10-12-2020, 06:42 PM
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And can we mention artificial copspeak?

“The suspect exited his vehicle”, when he got out out of his car

I remember a particular example from a book about Newhall because I actually discussed this with a friend with 25 years LE experience:

“The officers acquired a visual on the suspects’ vehicle.”

My friend said that one year out of the academy he’d have written that too. Ten years later he’d just have put that they saw the car.
Here is another. When describing (in court) an intoxicated college student who had been arrested for public intoxication the officer testified that he smelled alchol "on or about his person". Defense attorney seized on it and told how beer was often spilled on each other at crowded fraternity parties, etc. Judge dismissed the case. All the officer had to say was I smelled alcoholic beverage on the persons breath>
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