Gentleman

Dylboz · Post by **Dylboz** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 12:35 am

Why do police officers use this word to describe criminals? "This gentleman kicked his wife in the mouth...the gentleman who spat upon the senior citizen ran through the exit to the parking lot...the gentleman then pointed a gun at the clerk and demanded money."

We've all heard this shit before, why? It doesn't apply to these people.

It applies to me, the gentleman drinker (but not gentleman jack) so I say I'm being maligned by this gratuitous and inappropriate use of the word.

Heileman · Post by **Heileman** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 12:40 am

I'm pretty sure "gentleman" is code for "asshole"

Dylboz · Post by **Dylboz** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 12:42 am

Heileman wrote:I'm pretty sure "gentleman" is code for "asshole"

That way, it still applies to me!

**** · Post by ******** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 12:49 am

"GENTLEMEN! BEHOLD!!!"{

Savage · Post by **Savage** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 12:53 am

My brother-in-law has been a police officer nearly long enough to retire. In the beginning, he hated calling the scumbuckets he had to deal with "Sir."

Sixpack595 · Post by **Sixpack595** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 4:36 am

While the cop is saying "The gentleman..." The dude getting beat with a club is saying "What did I do SIR?"

daphne · Post by **daphne** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 4:49 am

I'd want to say "subject" or "offender" or "you" before "gentleman".

This never occurred to me.

G_W · Post by **G_W** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 7:41 am

Savage wrote:My brother-in-law has been a police officer nearly long enough to retire. In the beginning, he hated calling the scumbuckets he had to deal with "Sir."

Enlisted men and women do it all the time, tell him to suck it up.

Savage · Post by **Savage** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 11:01 am

gerald_weigel wrote:
Savage wrote:My brother-in-law has been a police officer nearly long enough to retire. In the beginning, he hated calling the scumbuckets he had to deal with "Sir."
Enlisted men and women do it all the time, tell him to suck it up.

Golly. I wouldn't know anything about that. :lol: Tell it to Grumpy, sonny. (USMC 1970-2002)

Post by **Badfellow** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 11:45 am

daphne wrote:I'd want to say "subject" or "offender" or "you" before "gentleman".

This never occurred to me.

"Perp" reeks of hardened malice.

Terms such as "sir" are mostly used as tools to elicit compliance. Conversely but by the same token, "I'll blow your fucking brains out" might be found far more effective than "stop or I'll shoot".

That's cop psychology: at the deep end of the kiddie pool.

The best cops are borderline corrupt alcoholics played by Emmy award winning actors.