I used to believe that if you were arrested, you were automatically put in jail. I thought this because many episodes of 1980's cop shows ended with the villain being arrested (if he is not killed), and the conflict of the episode is resolved as soon as the perpetrator is placed under arrest. The concepts of "trials" or "the possibility that the arrested person is innocent" did not occur to me at the time.
A childhood belief about police
others believed things like this
- When I was a kid, I thought you could get arrested if you accidently walked into the wrong restroomAnon
- When I was little I thought you could get arrested if you accidentally skipped a number while counting.— Hailey
- i used to belive that if you swore you would be arrested— kd
- When I was little, I use to think if you missed a day of school, you would be arrested.— Kaity
- I used to believe police officers can't get arrested.— Anonymous
- If the lights in the car were on, you'd get arrested by the policeAnon