no human involved
English
Adjective
no human involved (not comparable)
- (slang) Term used by police to describe or reference crimes committed against people who are deemed undesirable, such as those with criminal records, prostitutes, drug addicts, and transients.
- 2003, John Lescroart, The Oath, Chapter 37:
- He was not working with what the police facetiously call a no-humans-involved case, where everyone involved whether as witness or suspect already has a substantial criminal record.
- 2008, Linda Fairstein, Killer Heat, page 191:
- Cops closed them all with a code: NHI. The unsolved crimes had been back-burnered until a reporter revealed that the letters stamped on the police files were shorthand for No Human Involved.
- 2010, Martha C. Lawrence, Pisces Rising, page 33:
- I remembered Ed's offensive remark—“No human involved in that first murder anyway”—and tried to keep the disdain off my face.
- 2003, John Lescroart, The Oath, Chapter 37:
See also
- NHI