Re: Question about using “police” as a singular noun.

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Posted by Greg on October 16, 2007 at 07:38:33:

In Reply to: Question about using “police” as a singular noun. posted by Horace on October 10, 2007 at 12:33:35:

I don't know where it first started but I first heard it when I read Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets by David Simon. The book was published in 1991 and follows a real life shift in Baltimore City Homicide for 1 year. Many of the cops in that book use police as a singular noun, so I assume it is an actual thing cops do. As far as Greg Rucka's use of it, after reading Gotham Central, I get the feeling he is a fan of the book, or at least the spin-off TV show Homicide: Life on the Street; simply based on a few things used in the book/show were also used in GC (like the white board showing all solved and unsolved murders).

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: I don't know where it first started but I first heard it when I read Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets by David Simon. The book was published in 1991 and follows a real life shift in Baltimore City Homicide for 1 year. Many of the cops in that book use police as a singular noun, so I assume it is an actual thing cops do. As far as Greg Rucka's use of it, after reading Gotham Central, I get the feeling he is a fan of the book, or at least the spin-off TV show Homicide: Life on the Street; simply based on a few things used in the book/show were also used in GC (like the white board showing all solved and unsolved murders).


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