When I was little, I thought that if a police officer's kid got in trouble at home, he/she would go to jail instead of getting spanked.
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
- my mum told me when i was 11 if i swore the police would take me to jail. — tg in blue
- 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 thought that if you broke the law a officer would come and hit you with a night stick— Ron
- I thought that "Doube Bubble Toil and Trouble" was "Doube Bubble, Toilet Trouble" Anon