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English
Noun
SbC (countable and uncountable, plural SbCs)
- Initialism of suicide by cop.
2010, Cyril H. Wecht, Henry C. Lee, D.P. van Blaricom, Mel Tucker, Investigation and Prevention of Officer-Involved Deaths, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 113:According to a report released in 1983 of 99 officer-involved shootings (OISs) in Los Angeles County by Dr. Karl Harris, former Los Angeles County Deputy Medical Examiner, between 10% and 25% of all the shootings he studied involved suicide attempts. Harris also found that 50% of the weapons used to threaten officers in the SbC incidents he studied were firearms.