'boot in the face forever'--1984

[Mark Kohut]

>From a 2002 mystery called City of Bones, with the outlying
LAPD detective, one Harry Bosch pushing his bosses and 
solving the crime, I learned that in the Los Angeles Police Department
the nickname for a rookie is "boot"............
 
Almost a quote: No one knows its origin for sure, either derived from
boot camp or, another theory goes, for becoming one of the new boots
in the fascist police organization...............
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