Re:NYPD is refusing to comply with NYC’s new surveillance te...
by bogomipz on Friday March 31, 2023 @07:42PM
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There's nothing euphemistic about it at all. It bizarre to me that you seem to be going out of your way for specific word selection but then you go on to use those words incorrectly. It makes for confusing reading which is where my original question came. There's nothing "hostile" about asking for clarification.
Re:NYPD is refusing to comply with NYC’s new surveillance te...
by woodruffw on Friday March 31, 2023 @07:49PM
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It's the second definition[1], and a common use in English.
The euphemism was more subtle, but is also a known one[2].
I'm sorry if you found either confusing; that wasn't my goal.
I don't know why you're performing such a hostile reading: it can be simultaneously true that tension for police and residents has been present for decades, and that the police have shed a degree of respect and baseline approval that they've historically held[1], regardless of whether that approval was ever actually justified.
Which is what has happened[2].
[1]: https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/205619.pdf
[2]: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/12/us/gallup-poll-police.htm...