It’s like a dialect,” says Brooklyn South‘s Jon Tenney of the show’s sometimes hard-to-follow dialogue. We’re not talking dose Noo Yawk accents, either; it’s the impenetrable police jargon (authenticated by ex-cop Bill Clark) that leaves you searching for subtitles. To wit, our handy guide.
BUS: Ambulance (”Get him in the house till the bus gets here”)
DAT: Desk appearance ticket, no jail time
(THE) JOB: The police department
LOOKS GOOD: Appears to be guilty (”This guy looks good for the second shooter”)
MADE: Identified (”They made him for the mugging”)
NO TRUE BILL: No indictment (”The jury returned no true bill”)
PEDIGREE: Pertinent information about a party involved in a crime
POUND: Five years (”He did a pound upstate”)
PURSUING REMEDIES: Pressing charges
RAT SQUAD: Internal Affairs Bureau
REACH OUT: Seek cooperation
RHYTHM: Slack (”We get the stuff back, you buy yourself some rhythm”)
RMP: Radio motor patrol, police car
SKEL: Lowlife, dirtbag (”We’re leaning on the skels, trying to find out who the killer hangs with”)
SQUEEZING SHOES: Making life unpleasant (”Brass is squeezing shoes [because] we couldn’t grab the second perp”)
TURN OUT THE TROOPS: Hold roll call and assign duties
(A) WALK: Get-out-of-jail-free card (”The skell gave up the perp looking for a walk”)
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