NHI

See also: nhi, Nhi, nhì, nhĩ, and nhị

English

Adjective

NHI (not comparable)

1. (slang) Acronym of no human involved (“describing a crime committed against people deemed societally undesirable”).
   • 1989 May 14, Los Angeles Times, page 1:

     As incensed as the public gets at appallingly brutal killings–the ones that blow away innocents–police expend little sympathy on criminal-to-criminal mayhem. An acronym drifts unwritten about the system; those are NHI crimes–No Human Involved. Such talk is severely not part of official policy […]

   • 2002, Lynn Breedlove, Godspeed, page 24:

     The cops got an actual rubber stamp that says NHI.

   • 2015, Jill Leovy, Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America, Spiegel & Grau, →ISBN, page 6:

     According to the old unwritten code of the Los Angeles Police Department, Dovon's was a nothing murder. “NHI-No Human Involved,” the cops used to say.

Anagrams

• Hin, NIH, hin, ihn