no human involved

Definitions

1. 1

   Describing crimes committed against people deemed undesirable or subhuman, e.g., those…

   Describing crimes committed against people deemed undesirable or subhuman, e.g., those with criminal records, sex workers, drug addicts, transients, or people of color.

   • 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.
   • 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.
   • I remembered Ed's offensive remark—“No human involved in that first murder anyway”—and tried to keep the disdain off my face.

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