I was present when 2 Officers were attempting to find out if a man was telling the truth about being an Emergency Room Employee. This person said they lost their wallet & their Hospital ID Card was in the wallet. The Officer told the man to "Talk Cop" to him, because if he really DID work at a Hospital, then he would know what he meant! Was the Cop just screwing with this guys head? Is there such a thing as actually "talking cop"?
2007-02-26 15:47:22 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
Will certain words have a hidden meaning? Like a secret code of some sort?
2007-02-26 15:49:03 · update #1
Certain terms and phrases are unique. Also, to "talk cop" is sometimes a phrase that means a technique used by law enforcement to get people to tell their story and check it within itself. An officer will often ask the same question a number of times through a conversation in a different way to see if the response differs greatly. Also, in large urban ERs, many of the employees/caregivers see a lot of things that are possibly related to crime and criminals, and many of them, as a result of repeated dealings with law enforcement, understand the language. He could be asking for a detailed description of events.
2007-02-26 15:55:47 · answer #1 · answered by Mangy Coyote 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well, he could have been messing with the guy, just to see if the guy knew what the heck the cop meant. Then again, an ER employee and a cop may both use the same phrases or words. They differ from state to state, but something like the codes used in a post above could also be an example. (california calls a "crazy" person a 5150, parts of arizona call them 10-96)
nightking- I know exactly what you were saying! Didnt even need a 10-9 on that!. Too Funny.
2007-02-26 17:47:52 · answer #2 · answered by Chipilona 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
They were messing with the guy. If they said to "talk cop" they were talking about "cop talk". It's like the in-house slang so-to-speak. Every job has them. Different acronyms that mean something that to Joe Blow on the street mean absolutely nothing or make no sense at all. If I told you a number 6 came to 114 going all 10-8 on me then he needed to be 95'd and quick before he really went 10-96, you'd have no idea of what I was talking about. That's talking cop. It's the use of the radio codes or acronyms that are usually used in the department for normal day-to-day things that are totally senseless to anyone else.
2007-02-26 23:28:13 · answer #3 · answered by nightkingdoms3 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was a cop 20 years and I never heard this term used like that. I normally would've meant "quit talking like an idiot, use plain language" when my trainee would put in their report "I did then stop my police patrol vehicle and use the customary means of egress. I would say "shut up, say I stopped my police car and got out by opening the door."
I thought it sounded silly, and our academy was trying to break the habit of using officialese in your reports because it sounded stupid and was hard for the D.A. to understand.
My best guess for you is it is slang wherever you are working for the cops. The other possibility is these two cops work together so much that they have their own short-hand for something. Like our SWAT team leader called his helmet a "skid lid" and I always thought it sounded stupid, I called mine a helmet.
2007-02-26 17:54:29 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
10-4, acknowledged
10-9, repeat message
10-20, your location
10-50, auto wreck
10-80, foot pursuit
These are some of the codes my ex-wife uses to 'talk cop'. She was in a training course for security and law enforcement. These codes change by region, state, and city.
2007-02-26 16:08:12 · answer #5 · answered by Magic Guy 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yes...Like the famous words
Have A Nice Day means F**k - U in cop talk.
Not a cop here sorry but have a step brother that is a Police Detective. I know some of the stuff they use
2007-02-26 15:55:06 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋