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Question		Answer
24-HOUR REPORT, or 24 start learning		Police report summarizing a major incident, prepared within the first 24 hours following the incident.
A-MATTER start learning		Background or history of event/person/story being written about. In the pre-computer era of “hot-metal” typesetting, “A-matter” was often waiting in the composing room galley trays for a reporter to file the latest information for the top of the story.
A.M.E. start learning		Assistant medical examiner.
APB start learning		All points bulletin.
A.S.A. start learning		Assistant state attorney, a city prosecutor.
AUSA start learning		Assistant United States attorney, a federal prosecutor.
A TASTE start learning		Slang term meaning a beer or drink or a hit of dope. fg drugs.
ATTRIBUTION “Hamsterdam seemed like a good idea at the time,” said Howard “Bunny” Colvin. start learning		Identification of source in reported information, as in
B OF I start learning		Bureau of Identification, the unit that produces mug shots and other criminal intelligence material.
B&E start learning		Breaking and entering.
BABY BOOKING start learning		Juvenile intake unit for offenders under the age of majority.
BASER start learning		A person who cuts cocaine in preparation for distribution.
BAWLMER start learning		How many locals pronounce Baltimore.
BENNIES start learning		Benefits.
BLOW THE BOX start learning		Answering a question during a polygraph test in a way that causes the needle to soar, indicating a falsehood.
BODYMORE, MURDERLAND start learning		Slang terms for Baltimore, Maryland, illustrating its high murder rate.
BPI start learning		Baltimore Police Index. The city police computer.
BUG start learning		A concealed microphone. Not to be confused with The Bug, which is AIDS, or Michael Lee’s little brother, “Bug.”
BULK CARGO container technology has made it a relative rarity. start learning		Shipping term for cargo that is stored in bulk in a ship’s hold and does not utilize containers. At one time, almost all cargo was bulk
BUMP start learning		Battle or fight.
BURNER start learning		Pre-paid disposable cell phone.
BURNT short end of the stick start learning		Cheated or in the case of sexual activity, given a dose of a venereal disease.
BUST A CAP start learning		To fire a weapon.
BUYOUT start learning		Corporate purchase of the remainder of a worker’s employment, severing relationship with employee.
BYLINE start learning		Name of reporter who wrote a newspaper story, appearing below the headline and before the text.
CI start learning		Confidential informant.
CID start learning		Criminal Investigation Division.
CAN start learning		Slang term for a shipping container that can be detached from the chassis of a truck for loading onto a vessel, a railcar, or stacked in a container depot. Also known as a box.
CANVASS start learning		Investigative interviews with residents and others in a particular geographic area.
CAP or, to shoot someone, you “put a cap in his ass”. start learning		Bullet
CARRY WATER start learning		To perform a duty, often unpleasant, for someone who would normally do it for themselves. At times, the work of a flunky.
CAUGHT THE CASE start learning		When a police detective is assigned to investigate a crime/case.
CENTER PIECE The car-to-car frequency used by individual police units. start learning		Feature story, illustrated by at least one large photograph, in the center of the front page of a section of a newspaper. CHANNEL 3
CHECKERS start learning		Dockworkers who take an actual count of the goods (number of boxes, drums, bundles, pipes, etc.) versus the amount listed on the ship’s manifest. Members of the longshoremen’s checkers local will also note shortages, overages, or damage.
CITYWIDE A solved case. The clearance rate is the percentage of those crimes solved against the total reported. start learning		The main radio band for city police. All felony calls and announcements are broadcast on citywide. CLEARANCE
CLOCKING start learning		Dealing drugs.
CLUSTER-FUCK start learning		A term of military origin used to describe a hopelessly screwed-up situation.
COLD PATCH TRUCK start learning		City public works truck used to fix potholes.
CONTAINER start learning		A truck trailer body that can be detached from the chassis for loading onto a vessel, a railcar, or stacked in a container depot. Also known as a can or box.
CONTRIB LINE start learning		Short for contribution line, which lists writers who contributed material to the work of another reporter.
COOK THE BOOKS start learning		To falsify information, usually statistics. Synonymous with “juke the stats.”
CREW MEMBER start learning		Someone belonging to a drug organization.
CUR start learning		A dog who turns his head in a fight.
CUT HOUSE start learning		Where a drug crew dilutes and packages product.
D WARD start learning		Hospital detox.
DEU start learning		Drug Enforcement Unit. The district-level drug squads in the nine Baltimore police districts. The Western DEU, for example, is the drug unit in the Western District.
DNR start learning		Dialed-number recorder used to intercept the telephone numbers called from a phone and, if the caller ID is installed, to record incoming numbers. A preliminary step to any wiretap.
DSS start learning		Department of Social Services.
DAP start learning		Handshake between known associates that usually involves both hands being closed in a fist and then hit together, either knuckle to knuckle or bottom of hand to the top of the other person’s hand.
DEPUTY OPS start learning		The deputy commissioner of operations, the No. 2 man in the Baltimore police department, under the commissioner.
DETAIL start learning		Team of law enforcement personnel assigned to a specific case.
DISTRICT the Central District, which encompasses downtown, and eight others named for compass directions surrounding the Central start learning		A police precinct in Baltimore. There are nine
DROP A DIME start learning		To snitch on someone, to give up information to authorities.
DROPPED start learning		Slang for someone being shot.
DUNKER start learning		An easily solved case.
DUTY JUDGE start learning		The judge on duty after hours, who can sign search or arrest warrants for detectives after court is closed.
DUTY OFFICER start learning		The night commander for the police commander, appointed on a rotating schedule from the ranking commanders.
DWI start learning		Driving While Intoxicated.
ECU start learning		Evidence Control Unit.
ENFORCER a soldier, in street parlance. start learning		A gunman for a drug crew
EXHAUSTION start learning		Investigative term. A legal requirement that the police prove that they have “exhausted” all other investigative strategies in a case, so that they are justified in requesting electronic intercepts.
EYEFUCK start learning		A dirty look.
FIEND start learning		Drug addict.
FIN start learning		Five-dollar bill.
FIVE-O start learning		An ancient slang term for police.
FLEX SQUAD start learning		An extra squad of district plainclothesmen that can be used to target particular high-crime areas tactically.
FLIP start learning		To cooperate with authorities and give evidence against criminal associates or superiors.
FLOATER start learning		Dead body found in water.
GELCAP start learning		A single dose of heroin, packaged in a pharmaceutical gelcap.
GLOCK start learning		A make of semi-automatic weapon used by Baltimore police.
GO TO GROUND start learning		When someone in flight stops running from police and hides.
G-PACK start learning		One thousand vials of cocaine, prepackaged for sale.
GUMP start learning		Nerd and/or wimp, from the movie Forrest Gump.
H-FILES start learning		Homicide files.
HAND-TO-HAND start learning		When an undercover narcotics officer buys drugs directly from a suspect.
HER-RON start learning		Heroin.
HOMES start learning		Term of affection. Homeboy may be grossly clichéd, but its abbreviated version is occasionally offered.
HOME FINAL start learning		Final edition of paper delivered to residential subscribers.
HOOPTIE start learning		Street slang for a knocked-around vehicle.
HOPPERS start learning		Young kids, juveniles.
HOT BOX start learning		A shipping container that is supposed to be off-loaded from a ship directly to a truck, rather than stored on the docks.
HOURS start learning		Time working on a job or assignment.
HOUSECAT start learning		Slang police term for an officer who works in the office, rather than on the street.
HUMBLE start learning		An arrest based on weak or nonexistent evidence, such as disorderly conduct or loitering, used by street officers to humble an argumentative or provocative civilian.
I. I. D. start learning		Internal Investigations Division. Investigates possible crimes/ infractions involving police personnel.
IBS In prison. start learning		The Wire’s fictional union, the International Brotherhood of Stevedores. IN STIR
IN THE WIND start learning		Missing, lost, running from the law.
INDEPENDENCE CARD start learning		State of Maryland “Electronic Benefits Transfer” (EBT). A debit card uploaded with food stamps and/or cash.
JOHN BLAZE start learning		A fire, wild, strong.
JOHN DOE start learning		Police investigation term used to describe an unidentified male dead body. An unidentified female is a Jane Doe.
JUVENILE INTAKE start learning		Where juvenile criminals are taken after arrest to be processed for detention.
KGA start learning		Code for the dispatcher on police radio calls.
KEL-LITE start learning		A two-foot-long, metal-encased flashlight that can be used as a nightstick.
KEY start learning		Kilogram of drugs.
LATENTS start learning		Fingerprints found as evidence.
LAKE TROUT start learning		Baltimore term for fried, breaded white fish, served on plain white bread with tartar sauce and hot sauce.
LAY IN THE CUT start learning		To hide from a situation, not get involved.
LIZARD start learning		Lesbian.
LOCK IN start learning		To bring a witness before a grand jury, thereby locking in his testimony before he has a chance to reconsider and deny any knowledge of a crime.
LOOKOUT start learning		Someone who works for the dealers, keeping an eye out for the police.
MANIFEST start learning		A written document, signed by the captain of a ship, that lists the individual shipments constituting the ship’s cargo.
MARYLAND SHIELD LAW start learning		Statute protecting a reporter’s privilege to protect sources.
MOPE start learning		An ordinary street character, possibly guilty of crimes and possibly not, but certainly not a taxpayer.
MOUNT UP start learning		Get your guns and get ready.
MSA start learning		Maryland School Assessment. Standardized tests for reading, math and science administered in grades three through eight.
MULE start learning		A drug courier who brings narcotics interstate.
MUSCLE start learning		Those members of a drug crew responsible for enforcement and soldiering.
NADDIS start learning		DEA’s Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Information System.
NCIC start learning		The FBI’s National Crime Information Center.
NAGRA start learning		A wearable concealed recording device, now out of date.
No.1 start learning		Police term used to describe a black or dark-skinned person.
No.2 start learning		Police term used to describe a white or light-skinned person.
OIC start learning		Officer in charge, either of a sector, a shift, or a unit.
OFF THE HOOK start learning		Wild, crazed, out of control.
OFF-SITE start learning		An office used to house a police detail that is apart from the regular police districts and established unit offices. Usually used for a single, complex case, such as a wiretap probe.
ON PAPER start learning		On parole or probation. Not to be confused with having paper on you, which means you are wanted on an outstanding warrant.
ON THE SHELF start learning		Desk work. Not working the beat.
ON THE WING start learning		In flight from police, a fugitive.
ONE AND ONE start learning		A single bag of heroin and a single vial of cocaine, suitable for mixing as a speedball, or an injected combination of both drugs.
ONE-PARTYCONSENT start learning		Law regarding the recording of phone conversations in which only one party needs to give consent for the taping to be legal.
OUTTIE 5000 start learning		Exit phrase similar to “later.”
PACECO start learning		One of the tall cranes at the Baltimore port, named for its manufacturer.
PACKAGE start learning		Bulk weight of drugs used to refresh a dealer’s supply, or what a junkie calls his or her purchase from a dealer. However, saying someone has “the package” can also mean he has contracted HIV.
PAY LAWYER start learning		Privately hired attorney.
PJs start learning		The projects.
PLAYED start learning		Taken for a fool.
PLAYER start learning		One involved in the drug trade, or in any illegimate activity.
POINTS ON THE PACKAGE start learning		Percentage of profits on sale of illegal drugs.
POLICE RADIO CODES start learning		POLICE RADIO CODES
10–1 start learning		Communications check.
10–13 or SIGNAL 13 start learning		Officer needs assistance.
10–2 start learning		Loud and clear.
10–20 start learning		Location. Also known in slang as simply a 20.
10–29 start learning		Record check.
10–4 start learning		Affirmative.
10–5 start learning		Failed to acknowledge.
10–7 start learning		Not available/out of service. Sometimes used by police to describe someone who is dead.
10–8 start learning		Back in service.
POPO start learning		Police.
PROFORMA start learning		Court rulings intended to expedite the cluttered judicial system.
PRODUCT start learning		Drugs.
PUZZLE PALACE start learning		Derogatory term for Baltimore City public school headquarters on North Avenue.
RAISE UP start learning		As a lookout, to warn a drug crew of approaching police or stickup crews. Also, to provoke or confront someone.
RED BALL start learning		An important, high-profile, or politically charged case.
RE-UP start learning		Replenishment of drug supply to slingers, which is kept in the stash house.
REACT QUOTES start learning		Quotes from various sources in response to a breaking news story.
READ OUTS start learning		Police department info from recent crime reports.
ROLL SOMEONE UP start learning		Impel a suspect to implicate a superior and cooperate in the prosecution of that superior.
ROLLER start learning		Or harness roller. A uniformed patrol officer in a radio car.
RO-RO start learning		Roll on/roll off. An ocean-cargo service using a vessel with ramps that allows wheeled vehicles to be loaded and unloaded without using cranes.
RUNNERS start learning		Low-level workers, often juveniles, in the drug trade who retrieve the drugs once the customer has paid.
SECTOR start learning		A patrol area under the command of a sergeant. There are three or four sectors in every Baltimore police district.
SERVE UP start learning		To murder.
SHEET start learning		Arrest history.
SHITBIRD start learning		A negative term similar, but not quite as harsh, to calling someone an asshole.
SHOOTING GALLERY start learning		Abandoned building where fiends go to shoot up or smoke crack.
SHORTY start learning		Attractive female or young person of either sex. Alternatively, a half-pint of liquor.
SIGNIFYING start learning		Street slang for hanging out, bearing witness, taking stock of a situation, or, more aggressively, presenting oneself as having some authority or right to be.
SKY OR SKY UP start learning		Flee.
SLINGER start learning		Low-to mid-level worker in the drug trade who sells drugs on the corner. Ranked above a runner, as he is allowed to handle drugs.
SLINGING start learning		Dealing drugs.
SOLDIER start learning		A rank-and-file player in the drug trade, and, more particularly, one capable of enforcement or warfare.
SPEEDBALL start learning		An intravenous injection of both heroin and cocaine.
STASH HOUSE start learning		The house where a dealer’s drug supply is kept.
STEP ON IT start learning		Cut drugs.
STEVEDORES start learning		Companies provide equipment and hire workers to transfer cargo between ships and docks. Laborers hired by these firms are called stevedores or longshoremen.
STINGER start learning		A police report that is bounced back because of clerical or technical problems.
STREET SWEEPS start learning		A quick area raid and round-up of suspicious characters, loiterers, drug dealers, etc. by police.
SUCTION start learning		Influence or power.
TAC start learning		Short for tactical, which includes a variety of specialized police units, but is often used to refer to the heavily armored quick-responseteam officers used on raids and in high-risk situations.
TAKE DOORS start learning		Hit locations with search-and-seizure warrants.
TAP OUT start learning		To run low on the current supply of narcotics.
TESTER start learning		Free drug samples given to fiends to advertise the product.
THE BOARD start learning		The black-and-red-lettered caseboard used in the homicide unit.
THE BOX start learning		The police interrogation room.
THE BUG start learning		The AIDS virus.
THE CUT start learning		The House of Corrections in Jessup, south of Baltimore.
THE GAME start learning		The drug trade.
THE HALL start learning		City Hall.
THE OUT start learning		In an interrogation, the excuse offered to a suspect that convinces him to admit guilt, albeit in such a way that the suspect believes his guilt is mitigated.
THE PIT start learning		Slang term for the courtyard in the low-rise projects in West Baltimore where D’Angelo Barksdale was consigned.
THE POINT start learning		Locust Point, in South Baltimore, home to many Polish stevedores and increasingly a yuppie haven.
THE ROTATION start learning		The process by which homicide detectives catch murders, are given a basic amount of time to work those murders, and then must become available again for fresh cases.
THE VACANTS start learning		Abandoned Baltimore rowhouses.
TIME OUT start learning		What lookouts shout to alert a drug crew that the police or a stick-up crew has arrived.
TITLE III start learning		Legal term for a federally sanctioned wiretap.
TOUT start learning		A street-level slinger who announces what drugs are available and attracts customers.
TRIAL BALLOON start learning		Information or idea sent out in order to observe reaction.
VIAL start learning		The basic unit of street-sold cocaine, named for the small plastic, perfume-sample vials used as packaging. The vials have small, colored plastic tops, hence such brand names as Red Tops or Yellow Tops.
WALK AROUND MONEY Walking a beat as a foot patrolman. start learning		Money given to campaign workers on the street to get out the vote just before or on election day. WALKING FOOT
WE BRACIN’ UP getting guns and weapons. start learning		Getting ready to fight
WHIP start learning		A nice vehicle.
WHISTLE start learning		Handgun.
WHODUNIT start learning		A hard-to-solve murder. The opposite of a dunker.
WIRE start learning		A wiretap, or a concealed recording device on a person.
YOU FEEL ME NOW? start learning		Get it? Understand?
kazanie start learning		sermon

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