Because police officers were assigned to "protect people" and "uphold the law," I thought it was illegal for a police officer to take up smoking cigarettes because it was inherently dangerous to oneself.
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
- When I was a little kid. I thought that police officers were a gang of mean people who bullied others.— LOOL
- I used to believe police officers can't get arrested.— Anonymous
- 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
- I believed that traffic lights had police officers inside them, turning the lights on and off...— CrowHeart