copwise

adj

1. (informal)Possessing the knowledge and expertise typical of police officers; having police smarts.

   “They were copwise. Hiltz knew him from the Deutsches Haus. Smith provoked discord routinely. They were copwise.”

   “Steve went against his copwise instincts and entered the building anyway.”

   “Like streetwise residents in underpoliced neighborhoods, copwise individuals learn to reinterpret the mundane scenarios, spaces, and people found in the neighborhood.”