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This article currently discusses the use of the word, not the underlying concept, and does so from the perspective of the US legal system. More about the legal sytatus of the suspect, and in other judicial systems, is needed. Cusop Dingle (talk) 17:31, 18 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

"Perp"

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Does anyone really use the term "perp"? -- ypnypn (talk) 04:01, 7 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Cambridge.org says it is "US old-fashioned slang", this information should probably be provided. --2.240.205.117 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 13:16, 31 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I think it's time to delete this page, merge it with Perpetrator do something else with it.

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Essentially every sentence is hot garbage and not really worth being a encyclopedia entry.

"A common error in police reports is a witness description of the suspect (as a witness generally describes a perpetrator, while a mug shot is of a suspect). Frequently it is stated that police are looking for the suspect, when there is no suspect; the police could be looking for a suspect, but they are surely looking for the perpetrator, and very often it is impossible to tell from such a police report whether there is a suspect or not."

This is an example. It's just plain wrong. To address it specifically: no the cops are not looking for the perpetrator. They're looking for the suspect that was described to them, who they hope is the perpetrator or hope is a witness.

"In law enforcement jargon, a suspect is a known person accused or suspected of committing a crime. "

Again, untrue. This sentence is the basis for the entire (small) paragraph that follows and is essentially the only entry on "suspect." Legal definitions are entirely pointless when dealing with words that are not nearly exclusively used by the justice systems of the world, because they are, by definition, jurisdictional. 2600:6C54:7900:CD7:61E5:2ABE:D8FF:9F2 (talk) 02:33, 16 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 24 January 2023

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The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Not moved. No such user (talk) 13:27, 6 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]


– There are 21 entries listed upon the Suspect (disambiguation) page, with no indication that the ten-sentence stub delineating Suspect represents a topic of such significance as to overshadow the combined notability of the remaining 20 entries. The parenthetical qualifier "(law enforcement)" is analogous to such other uses as Internal affairs (law enforcement) or Manhunt (law enforcement). —Roman Spinner (talkcontribs) 00:22, 24 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.