Talk:dirty cop

RFD discussion: January–August 2020
SOP. Canonicalization (talk) 16:26, 14 January 2020 (UTC)


 * Keep. It has become effectively exclusive of police with poor hygiene or who have just come from a mud fight. It is even exclusive of those who use "below-the-belt" fighting tactics. bd2412 T 06:02, 18 January 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete as SOP. To bd's point, this is true of e.g. "dirty politician" as well, and is a result of the fact that cops and politicians don't often engage in literal mud fights in the first place—it's not that "dirty" is somehow unusually restricted on a lexical level to "unethical" in just this phrase, it's that on a practical level, people don't go around talking about cops' (or politicians') literal cleanliness that much in the first place (look at the Ngram for "unclean cop", for example: it's too rare a phrase to plot), but do talk about their corruptness. - -sche (discuss) 21:33, 1 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete per -sche. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 19:00, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete per -sche. -- Uisleach (talk) 17:05, 7 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Deleted. — SGconlaw (talk) 19:38, 6 August 2020 (UTC)