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- From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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- Subject: Re: Questions
- Date: 29 Dec 1992 22:41:25 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- In a previous article, torkel@SICS.SE () says:
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- > >On the beat??
- >
- > No. "When you were a cop, did you want to know everything that was going on
- >in your department? How many guys were on a pad? How many of them copped
- >some skag or flake at a bust and sold it off later?"
- >
- Heroin and cocaine, I think - could also be maryjane.:-) To "cop" in this
- case means that some of the drugs taken from the seller never made it to the
- evidence locker. Does anyone know the derivation of that one?
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