>>While on the subject, I don't know if you know that "World's scariest police videos" show, with the whiter-than-white toothed "ex-sherrif" and his stage-set little "ride-alongs" whilst still chatting to camera...
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>>Why when a cop has been chasing a guy for miles is he still referred to as "the Suspect"? He's THERE - DOING IT - so he's a "perp". It's not as if someone's doing 100 MPH - "I suspect the person in the driving seat could be doing it"
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>>"The suspect has just fired shots from the window" :-)
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>>Strange terminology
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>I suspect it's because he is caught up in using "police jargon". Cops don't get out of the car, they exit the vehicle. People become suspects, etc.

D'you mean "I perpetrate it's because ..." ? :-)