NHI

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A form of no human involved — Describing crimes committed against people deemed undesirable or subhuman, e.g., those with criminal records, sex workers, drug addicts, transients, or people of color.

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  1. abbreviationacronymslangAcronym of no human involved (“describing a crime committed against a person deemed societally undesirable”).

    The cops got an actual rubber stamp that says NHI.

    2002, Lynn Breedlove, Godspeed, page 24
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    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 […]

    1989 May 14, Los Angeles Times, page 1

    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.

    2015, Jill Leovy, Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America, Spiegel & Grau, →ISBN, page 6
noun
  1. abbreviationinitialismhuman sciencesInitialism of nonhuman intelligence.

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no human involved

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APA

NHI. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/NHI

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