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Dec 5, 2015 12:58
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English term
the twenty
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NYC police speak
My radio interrupted. “Monitor to Red Leader.”
I answered it on the run. “Go ahead, Monitor.”
“I’ve got you on traffic cam. There’s transport on Twenty-First Street a block ahead of you. It’s all yours.”
“Thank you, Monitor,” I said as the team piled in. “What’s the twenty on our target?”
“Our eye in the sky saw them pull into a garage at Eighty-Eight Crane six minutes ago.”
Police action in NYC. The location is Queens.
I've found the police radio signal codes, but no "twenty" here.
http://www.n2nov.net/nypdcodes.html
What else could it be?
I answered it on the run. “Go ahead, Monitor.”
“I’ve got you on traffic cam. There’s transport on Twenty-First Street a block ahead of you. It’s all yours.”
“Thank you, Monitor,” I said as the team piled in. “What’s the twenty on our target?”
“Our eye in the sky saw them pull into a garage at Eighty-Eight Crane six minutes ago.”
Police action in NYC. The location is Queens.
I've found the police radio signal codes, but no "twenty" here.
http://www.n2nov.net/nypdcodes.html
What else could it be?
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Jack Doughty
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Quoting reference below:
what's your 20?
The phrase essentially means, "What is your location?" or "Identify your position," but is a corrupted phrase from the original "10-20" used by United States law enforcement to verbally encode their radio transmissions to that non-police listeners would not easily discover police operations, as well as to communicate quicker and more efficiently by standardizing frequently used phrases.
These verbally-coded messages were called "10 codes", of which "10-20" stood for "Identify your position," or "Where are you?" originally.
what's your 20?
The phrase essentially means, "What is your location?" or "Identify your position," but is a corrupted phrase from the original "10-20" used by United States law enforcement to verbally encode their radio transmissions to that non-police listeners would not easily discover police operations, as well as to communicate quicker and more efficiently by standardizing frequently used phrases.
These verbally-coded messages were called "10 codes", of which "10-20" stood for "Identify your position," or "Where are you?" originally.
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