Rookie Cop Laying On The Jargon A Little Thick

CHICAGO—Four days after joining the Chicago Police Department, Officer Patrick Finley of the 18th Precinct is laying on the jargon a little thick, it was reported Monday. “Yesterday, he got on the radio and called for a ’black-and-white’ instead of a ’squad car,’” said Ray Podriewski, Finley’s partner. “Not only is ’black and white’ movie jargon dating back to the 1940s, but our cars are blue and white, for God’s sake. Then, as if that weren’t bad enough, he calls the handcuffs ’bracelets.’” Podriewski said Finley later added insult to injury when he referred to the police as “the fuzz.” “First of all,” Podriewski said, “that’s what criminals supposedly call the police. Second of all, even they don’t really say it.