Police Have A Language of Their Own

If you don't listen to a police scanner regularly and pay close attention to those "police spokespersons" on TV, you may not have noticed how cops talk and the language they use.
For example. Have you noticed that hardly anyone ever 'dies' anymore, or how no one is ever 'dead' anymore? The new word for the afterlife used by the police department talking heads is 'deceased.'
"The man was flown to the hospital where he was pronounced DECEASED." It used to be DOA for Dead On Arrival but at some point or the other, someone decided that DEAD or DIED is no longer an acceptable way to refer to someone who is either DEAD or DIED. Now they are DECEASED.
Remember when people used to GET out of their cars? Cops used to GET out of their cars too. But today, they EXIT their VEHICLES. The police spokesman on TV stands in front of the camera and says, "When the officers arrived on the scene, they immediately exited their vehicles." What's up with that? We didn't expect that when they arrived on the scene they would just sit in their cars. We expected them to get out of their cars, but instead they exited their vehicles.
How long has it been since we heard the police spokesman on TV say, "The officer drew his pistol and shot the bad guy." They don't draw and shoot anymore. Here is the standard, by-the-book statement the police spokesman repeats for the cameras everytime a cop shoots a bad guy.
"The officer, fearing for his life or the life of others, discharged his service weapon at the suspect, striking him five times in the liver." Then he may follow that up with, "The man then hit the ground deceased."
So why do all these so-called Public Information Officers talk the same? No matter from which department or area of the country, we see them day after day in front of the TV cameras, repeating the same phrases over and over. Why does TV continue to interview them? We know what they're going to say.
It is standardized phrasing. With these prepared scripts, departments can send anyone, with minimum training, before the media to talk without ever really saying anything of subtance. A department can assign someone as it's Public Information Officer to rattle off these memorized phrases for the media, who really has no knowledge of the incident. He/she can show up at the scene of a news event and be briefed in a matter of minutes, comb his hair, straighten his tie, and stand in front of the cameras. And when he is through talking, the public knows no more than they did before he/she recited.
The next time you see this on TV, watch and listen carefully. You'll see.
That's the way I see it.
How about you?