beat cop
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beat cop (plural beat cops)Category:English lemmas#BEATCOPCategory:English nouns#BEATCOPCategory:English countable nouns#BEATCOPCategory:English multiword terms#BEATCOPCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#BEATCOPCategory:Pages with entries#BEAT%20COPCategory:Pages with 1 entry#BEAT%20COP
- (USCategory:American English#BEATCOP, slangCategory:English slang#BEATCOP) A police officer who patrols the streets on foot (walks the beat).
- Synonym: beatsman
- 2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, Illusion of Order:
- Others understand community policing as a style of community integration in which the beat cop specifically withholds enforcement as a way to build community contacts.Category:English terms with quotations#BEATCOP
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a police officer who patrols the streets on foot
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