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Good old sexism in police codes
« on: August 06, 2015, 04:46:40 am »
I've just stumbled upon a list of police codes (10-4, you know). And there are two codes next to each other:
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11-25    Road/traffic hazard
11-25x    Female motorist needs assistance
Interesting numbering and there is no equivalent for male motorist :)

I wonder who invented them, and though it was a good idea to put it like that.
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Re: Good old sexism in police codes
« Reply #1 on: August 06, 2015, 05:23:09 am »
Funny, it also suggests that Road/Traffic Hazards are caused by Female having the primary number the same.

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Re: Good old sexism in police codes
« Reply #2 on: August 06, 2015, 05:53:45 am »
- Does that mean without the x it's a guy and leave them to rot?
- With the x it's a girl and let's go check her out?

 
 

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Re: Good old sexism in police codes
« Reply #3 on: August 06, 2015, 07:05:29 am »
I wonder who invented them, and though it was a good idea to put it like that.

I don't know. But it probably was around the same time Volkswagen printed such adverts  :box:


 

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Re: Good old sexism in police codes
« Reply #4 on: August 06, 2015, 07:40:32 am »
Well this is all very funny, or sad, but the real reason females get there own code is that -

- it is useful to give a general description of whom to look for at a scene.
- yes, if police help is needed at a scene, it may be more urgent if it's a woman who needs help.
- you don't want to say "female" on the air, as idiots with scanners might hear and get there before the police do.

So the "x" codes, which may or may not have anything to do with the "x" chromosome, were born.

Where a numeric code is followed by a letter the letter is said over the air using the phonetic alphabet, so it would be "eleven-twenty-five x-ray". CHP even says "X-ray" instead of saying "female" or "woman" in normal speech with no number code before it, e.g. "The X-ray was driving."

http://www.policemag.com/cop-slang/x-ray.aspx
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Re: Good old sexism in police codes
« Reply #5 on: August 06, 2015, 08:11:18 am »
I don't know. But it probably was around the same time Volkswagen printed such adverts

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Re: Good old sexism in police codes
« Reply #6 on: August 06, 2015, 08:16:30 am »
Maybe the need to know in order to dispatch a female officer.

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Re: Good old sexism in police codes
« Reply #7 on: August 06, 2015, 11:37:43 am »
I fail to see any sexism there...
 

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Re: Good old sexism in police codes
« Reply #8 on: August 06, 2015, 11:49:28 am »
Reminds me of the completely coincidental spelling of certain German words:

Ire = Someone from Ireland
Irre = Lunatic

Trauring = Wedding Ring
Traurig = Sad

They tell me it's pure coincidence  ;D

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Re: Good old sexism in police codes
« Reply #9 on: August 06, 2015, 11:59:16 am »
I fail to see any sexism there...

These days  "women and children first" is sexist and agist.
 

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Re: Good old sexism in police codes
« Reply #10 on: August 06, 2015, 12:13:03 pm »
By female they mean someone who gender identifies as female, I hope?  ;)

I also wonder how the UK police, being the ultimate SJW's get away with the IC1, IC2, etc racial profiles?

Oh dear, I just looked it up - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IC_codes - police are required to use the more extensive "16+1" Self Defined Ethnicity codes, "even if the category chosen is clearly at odds with the officer’s visual assessment"   :palm: :-DD
 

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Re: Good old sexism in police codes
« Reply #11 on: August 06, 2015, 02:30:59 pm »
Oh dear, I just looked it up - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IC_codes - police are required to use the more extensive "16+1" Self Defined Ethnicity codes, "even if the category chosen is clearly at odds with the officer’s visual assessment"   :palm: :-DD

O1 should be in the A catagory*, is that a sign of a little bit of racism still falling into the new codes?

For what it's worth I don't have an option on there apart from NS as there's no M99 - a right Eurasian mongrel option. And seeing as some things make you illegally answer one or the other for ethnicity I tend to go for White British as it's just easier.

*I can't be the only person who finds only counting those from the Indian subcontinent as Asian as either racist by those who are ethnically from said subcontinent or those Asians who aren't...
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Re: Good old sexism in police codes
« Reply #12 on: August 06, 2015, 02:58:36 pm »
Reminds me of the completely coincidental spelling of certain German words:

Ire = Someone from Ireland
Irre = Lunatic

Trauring = Wedding Ring
Traurig = Sad

They tell me it's pure coincidence  ;D

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Re: Good old sexism in police codes
« Reply #13 on: August 06, 2015, 03:13:54 pm »
It's simply an old code, from a time when it wasn't thought safe for a lone woman to be stuck by the side of the road in a broken down car. Nowadays the police evaluate the situation based on the individual.


Until the policeman gets on scene, they cannot evaluate the situation anyhow.  So the radio call pretty much has to say somehow it is more urgent.

It is still less safe for a lone woman to be stuck on the road side.  Outside of prison, male-rape-female (I would imagine) still far out numbers other forms of rape.  For an opportunistic crime, man stuck by the road side would likely suffer property crime, a woman may suffer more.

[Edit: corrected a typo]
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Re: Good old sexism in police codes
« Reply #14 on: August 06, 2015, 04:23:32 pm »
I fail to see any sexism there...

These days  "women and children first" is sexist and agist.
It's the reason so many men perished on the Titanic.
But I don't have so much of a problem with priority for those who are less able like children and the elderly.
 

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Re: Good old sexism in police codes
« Reply #15 on: August 06, 2015, 04:25:37 pm »
Police can use normal language if they need to describe some very specific situation. Being stuck on the road next to prison is an example of a very specific situation.

The problem here is that there is no code for "Male motorist needs assistance" or even "Motorist needs assistance".
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Re: Good old sexism in police codes
« Reply #16 on: August 06, 2015, 04:58:33 pm »
Before the state of Iowa issued driver's licenses with photos, they typed "1" for black and "3" for white on a black rectangle (so no one would notice) to give a first-order identification of the driver.
Some white people objected, since there more whites than blacks in Iowa, and demanded "1" for white.
 

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Re: Good old sexism in police codes
« Reply #17 on: August 06, 2015, 06:13:39 pm »
I've just stumbled upon a list of police codes (10-4, you know). And there are two codes next to each other:
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11-25    Road/traffic hazard
11-25x    Female motorist needs assistance
Interesting numbering and there is no equivalent for male motorist :)

I wonder who invented them, and though it was a good idea to put it like that.
When you listen to big city cops talk back and fourth on their radios you find out they have a whole language that is not only sexist but even worse.
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Re: Good old sexism in police codes
« Reply #18 on: August 06, 2015, 06:22:13 pm »
When you listen to big city cops talk back and fourth on their radios you find out they have a whole language that is not only sexist but even worse.
I've been listening downtown San Jose police work (that's why I was looking up codes in a first place) for a about a week. So far they have been nothing but professional.

Also surprising amount of crap happens in a very small  area.
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Re: Good old sexism in police codes
« Reply #19 on: August 06, 2015, 06:28:55 pm »
I've known many law enforcement officers over the years. In private, sexism and racism among them has been way too common.  Whether they bring that to their job is another matter. I suspect (hope) most of them are professional enough not to.  However, it's a tough job and with so many of them, there are going to be enough bad apples in the bunch that in stressful situations ones true nature is bound to sometimes come out...
 

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Re: Good old sexism in police codes
« Reply #20 on: August 06, 2015, 06:50:12 pm »
The code may have a use. Years ago my mother had a flat tire and pulled over to the side of the autobahn. She knew how to change the tire but at 1,5m tall and under 45Kg she was unable to lift the wheel out of the trunk so she called the police using the emergency phone system.
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Re: Good old sexism in police codes
« Reply #21 on: August 06, 2015, 10:15:42 pm »
Not related to sexism per-se but related to police behavior:

Here is a video discussion of a cell-phone photo - a few days ago, a passer-by photographed a policeman  helping a kid putting his tie on!

http://video.foxnews.com/v/4395066092001/new-jersey-cop-teaches-teen-how-to-tie-a-tie/?intcmp=obinsite#sp=show-clips

I don't have police friends anymore (lost touch with them).  With my encounters with the police, I think they have a stronger "sense of fairness" than the general population.  They may talk tough, but most of them are good guys doing a hard job.
 

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Re: Good old sexism in police codes
« Reply #22 on: August 07, 2015, 07:13:13 am »
Not related to sexism per-se but related to police behavior:

Here is a video discussion of a cell-phone photo - a few days ago, a passer-by photographed a policeman  helping a kid putting his tie on!

Obvious setup for publicity is obvious. Where're the shots of the copper trying to bully the person with the camera into stopping filming?


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With my encounters with the police, I think they have a stronger "sense of fairness" than the general population.

My observations the police in almost every country I've been to make me believe they're the biggest gang on the streets. Good cops are only good until a bad cop turns up and they've got to fall in line.

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They may talk tough, but most of them are good guys doing a hard job.

Tough titty booby pie. They picked that job, if they can't do it while understanding the concept of policing by consent, without illegally throwing their weight around because they are insecure about the size of their... batons, or happilly put up with people telling them to go f*&k themselves when they have every right to they should be doing something else.
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Re: Good old sexism in police codes
« Reply #23 on: August 07, 2015, 10:52:23 am »
Reminds me of the completely coincidental spelling of certain German words:

Ire = Someone from Ireland
Irre = Lunatic

Trauring = Wedding Ring
Traurig = Sad

They tell me it's pure coincidence  ;D

McBryce.

I wish I could argue with these comparisons.

As I'm Irish (and married) living in Germany, I've tried... and failed. Funnily enough, the second one is rarely noticed by Germans until you point it out! :D

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Re: Good old sexism in police codes
« Reply #24 on: August 07, 2015, 04:47:46 pm »
Not related to sexism per-se but related to police behavior:

Here is a video discussion of a cell-phone photo - a few days ago, a passer-by photographed a policeman  helping a kid putting his tie on!

Obvious setup for publicity is obvious. Where're the shots of the copper trying to bully the person with the camera into stopping filming?


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With my encounters with the police, I think they have a stronger "sense of fairness" than the general population.

My observations the police in almost every country I've been to make me believe they're the biggest gang on the streets. Good cops are only good until a bad cop turns up and they've got to fall in line.

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They may talk tough, but most of them are good guys doing a hard job.

Tough titty booby pie. They picked that job, if they can't do it while understanding the concept of policing by consent, without illegally throwing their weight around because they are insecure about the size of their... batons, or happilly put up with people telling them to go f*&k themselves when they have every right to they should be doing something else.

Hmmm....  Sounded like you just got another speeding ticket or something.  You don't seem to like them...  Any particular reason?
 


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