Sometimes television re-runs are a good thing. A teenage neighbor had convinced my then three-year-old daughter that the police would arrest her and take her to jail if she was "bad." She chose to believe the teenage neighbor instead of my telling her it was nonsense. Well, the fear was laid to rest when she watched a re-run of Chips and noticed the recurring theme: Someone is in danger, and here come the police to *help* them. Thanks to Chips, my daughter learned to see the police as friends, not enemies.
A childhood belief about police
others believed things like this
- 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 used to believe that if you did not keep your shoes tied, that the police would arrest you.— Kelly
- My mom threatened that if I didn't eat all my vegetables that the police would come and arrest me.— Lisa T.
- my mum told me when i was 11 if i swore the police would take me to jail. — tg in blue
- I wanted to be a police officer as a kid because I believe police officer's couldn't die.— Sam