{"id":5869,"date":"2010-03-01T09:47:46","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T14:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=5869"},"modified":"2010-03-01T09:47:46","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T14:47:46","slug":"not_just_a_job_its_an_entire_language_too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/03\/not_just_a_job_its_an_entire_language_too.html","title":{"rendered":"Not Just A Job, It’s An Entire Language, Too"},"content":{"rendered":"

And now you know some of what they’re saying<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Cop-speak is a point of pride among officers, a key element of NYPD style and, as is particularly true of numeric “radio codes,” a way for cops to communicate so civilians won’t understand.<\/p>\n

For outsiders, “a lot of it goes over your head or you don’t pick up the nuances or in-between meanings,” Bosak said, “but guys on ‘The Job’ pick up on it right away and understand.”<\/p>\n

The radio command “10-4,” meaning “acknowledged,” has established itself in the vocabularies of many civilians. Others, not so much — like “10-98” (back on patrol), “10-30” (robbery in progress) and the urgent “10-13” (officer needs assistance).<\/p>\n

Then there’s the favorite, “I’m going 63.” It’s short for “10-63” — a meal break. “That’s the most popular — they gotta eat well,” a retired officer said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And now you know some of what they’re saying: Cop-speak is a point of pride among officers, a key element of NYPD style and, as is particularly true of numeric “radio codes,” a way for cops to communicate so civilians won’t understand. For outsiders, “a lot of it goes over your head or you don’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culturalanthropological"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5870,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5869\/revisions\/5870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}