After watching american cop shows like CHIPS as a kid, I used to believe that all you had to do to catch a criminal was put out an APB and couldn't understand why the police here didn't do that.
A childhood belief about police
others believed things like this
- I wanted to be a police officer as a kid because I believe police officer's couldn't die.— Sam
- I thought the song "Karma Police" was actually saying "call the police" before I learned the title— Alberto Richardson
- When I used to see the sign 'police accident' I thought it meant that a police car had crashed.Anon
- Living near Canada's border without cable, I didn't know I was American. — Romania
- My mom threatened that if I didn't eat all my vegetables that the police would come and arrest me.— Lisa T.
- I used to think that the police didn't know that we called them coppers behind their backs!— Chris