What are some slang terms used among police officers?
The most derogatory terms for the bad guys and citizens who are just pains in the rectum:A.H. = Adam Henry (A-dam H-enry) If you don’t get it…..sometimes you will hear it as “Jack Hole”…..now what starts with an “A” that ends with HOLE ?RICHARD CRANIUM= What starts with a “D” and is a nickname for Richard ? What is the non-medical layman’s term for the Cranium ? Do these clues HEAD you in the right direction ?
I hear Los Angeles is a dump, is this true?
The Los Angeles metropolitan area is the largest by area of any US city. The biggest difference you'll see in LA versus say New York or Chicago is the vast sprawl of suburban communities. There are some high density, urban areas like DTLA and Santa Monica. But the vast majority of LA consists of individual neigborhoods.What visitors consider LA to be and what locals consider “LA" to be are two different ideas. I live in the far northern part of LA county, a 70 mile drive from downtown. LA County is about 100 miles wide and 90 miles long. I live in LA, but in that I live in a part if the vast Los Angeles metro area. If an Angeleno tells me they live in LA, its understood that they live in proper Los Angeles….the area encompassed by Glendale and Pasadena to the northeast, Griffith Park to the north, the 105 freeway to the south, the 405 to the west, and the 60 freeway to the east. In that area alone, there are about 30 varied neighborhoods.Like any city, LA has it's nice and it's not so nice. Downtown IS a dump. It's one of the oldest sections of city, and has serious problems with vagrancy and failing infrastructure. But in current LA, the shitty parts of town are slowly going away. Much of the criminal activity that 90s LA was known for has decreased with the suppression of the gang violence by local police. South LA is no vacation spot, but less and less residents becAme victims of gang-related criminal activity since the early 2000s. And with the housing demand at its peak in California, seedy neighborhoods are being refurbished to accommodate affordable housing.The thing about LA is the juxtaposition of wealth. Some of the most expensive real estate in the states is in the coastal towns between Malibu and Long Beach. Houses worth hundreds of millions, if not billions. Go 10 miles inland and you often find yourself in the heart of a working class neighborhood with homes dating to the 50s. I've traveled a fair amount, and there's no town quite like it