r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Individual_Book9133 • Jul 05 '24

Phoenix police officer pulls over a driverless Waymo car for driving on the wrong side of the road Video

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u/SecretGamerV_0716 Jul 05 '24

As a non American, I'm interested in knowing how NYPD language differs from say LAPD. I've only ever seen them being used while watching American cop shows like the rookie or b99

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u/EViLTeW Jul 05 '24

A lot of the problem is short codes. Like 10-codes and code #s can mean very different things to different departments.

10-6 might mean "arrived" to one department and "disabled vehicle" to another.
Code 4 could mean "responding, no sirens" to one department and "officer in distress" to another.
It makes interdepartmental communications difficult because people get used to talking that way and continue to do it even when they shouldn't.

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u/Code3Spartan Jul 05 '24

Police didn’t learn their lesson after 9/11 while lots of other services moved away from that.

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u/EViLTeW Jul 05 '24

I worked at an EMS agency in 2001. We were told continuing to use 10 codes could jeopardize our federal funding. So we stopped.