Dallas Police Department Dropping Police Code for Plain English

Catch a cop show over the past several decades and these strings of numbers barked over police radios might sound familiar:

“1-Adam-12, a 4-15 fight.” …”We have a 9-11. Armed robbery in progress.”

Or in the words of the bumbling Barney Fife: “Mayberry Unit No. 1 over and, uh, Roger. Roger. Out and under. 10-40. Bye.”