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Hey all  While working on Near Wild Heaven II, I realised I needed a particular word, but I've been looking everywhere in my dictionaries and I couldn't find the word I'm looking for. My best bet would be my slang dictionary of course, but I left it at my apartment and I'm currently staying with my parents in another town. So I need your help! All right, the word designates the people who investigate the police officers when something fishy went on in a police precinct (like a convict dying or something). They're the police of police, if you prefer. In French, we have a slang word for them (boeuf-carottes - "beef-carotts"). Is there an equivalent in English? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Kaethel
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Helene, they're called Internal Affairs or IA. I don't know of any slang term for them, though.
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While working on Near Wild Heaven II Y!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! E!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! S!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Y!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Y!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  *clears throat* Ahem.  /me takes it down a notch Yeah, we've always just called 'em Internal Affairs over here, too. Jen
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Drawing on my vast knowledge of the subject - gleaned from many years watching NYPD Blue  - they're always called The Rat Squad by the detectives on that show. Because they 'rat out' fellow cops. LabRat
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Thanks for your help, guys! I knew I could count on you to find me the exact information I wanted.  So, would "the rat squad" make sense to everyone? Rat mentions it here and Riv also mentioned it on irc. Or would it make your eyebrows shoot up? I can use IA otherwise. Thanks again for your help, Gerry, Jen (LOL! Yes, I'm working on it) and Rat! Kaethel
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Sorry, Rat Squad on it's own would have made absolutely no sense to me. I'd have been sitting around scratching my head trying to figure that one out. Knowing the background now, I think it makes sense, but I think you need to preface it by first saying they are internal affairs. It's a cute, and apt, nickname for them, but those of us who have never watched NYPD Blue might be left in the dark if there's no prior explanation. Rat squad definitely sounds like something they would *say* in the dialogue, but I think you should introduce them as Internal Affairs in the narrative. Annie PS Yay, yay, yay for working on NWHII
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I wouldn't have understood that term at first, either. OTOH, if you had someone from IA stop by, and a policeman saw him and asked, "What is the Rat Squad doing here?", I think everyone would immediately understand the term and how it was used. Just my humble opinion.
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Hi, Found this: On-line Dictionary of Street Drug Slang http://www.drugs.indiana.edu/slang/home.html Example: Put the "police" burn --to report a drug user or dealer to the police cold bust --unplanned arrest for drugs after a police stop for another crime fuzz --police officer; narcotics officer man --heroin; drug dealer; the police set up --use of informants to obtain a drug conviction; drugs planted by police prior to a drug raid sting -- police trap set for unwitting criminals stool --police informant; to cooperate with police Bull --narcotics agent or police officer Hot heroin --poisoned to give to a police informant Hubba pigeon --crack user looking for rocks on a floor after a police raid Rollers --police Tweaker --crack user looking for rocks on the floor after a police raid Police Slang and Codes http://sinai.critter.net/mutant/dawn/slang.htm Police dictonary, Police glossary, and police term directory http://www.glossarist.com/glossaries/government-politics-military/police.asp Drug Related Street Terms/Slang Words http://www.addictions.org/slang.htm A prisoners dictionary http://dictionary.prisonwall.org/ Others SlangSite.com http://www.slangsite.com/ English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/ Good Luck! MAF 
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Personally-speaking, if you used the Rat Patrol, or the Rat Squad, or whatever, without letting your readers know what you meant by it, (and even if you did, maybe ) I might take it to mean that you were trying to slyly slip in a FoLC mention - after all, we *do* have a Rat in our midst! Melisma (diving back under her Rock to avoid tomatoes)
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Thanks for clarifying, guys. Okay then, I'll make sure that I use rat squad where it's very clear that I'm talking about the IA. Maria, thanks for the great links!! These can definitely come in handy. Kaethel
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- Oh, you know what? I don't know what we are. We kiss and then we never talk about it. We nearly die frozen in each other's arms, but we never talk about it, so no, I got no clue what we are.
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