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Andy Hine MBE · Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 6:30 pm Post subject: Murphy's Laws for Law Enforcement

• Bullet Proof vests aren't.
• The bigger they are, the harder they fall. They also punch, kick and choke harder too.
• The speed at which you respond to a fight call is inversely proportional to how long you've been a cop.
• CS Spray works on cops too, and regardless of wind direction, will always blow back in your face.
• Placing a gun back in a shoulder holster with your finger on the trigger will cause you to walk with a limp.
• lf you have 'cleared' all the rooms and met no resistance, you and your entry team have probably kicked in the door of the wrong house.
• If a cop swings a baton in a fight, he will hit other cops more often than he will hit the bad guys he swings at.
• Domestic arguments will always migrate from an area of few available weapons (living room), to an area with many available weapons (kitchen).
• If you have just punched out a handcuffed prisoner for spitting at you, you are about to become a star on 'Eyewitness News'.
• When a civilian sees a blue light approaching at a high rate of speed, he will always pull into the lane the cop needs to use.
• If you drive your patrol car to the geometric centre of the Gobi Desert, within five minutes some dumb civilian will pull along side you and ask for directions.
• You can never drive slow enough to please the citizens who don't need a cop, and you can never drive fast enough to please the ones that do.
• If you know someone who tortures animals and wets the bed, he is either a serial killer or he works for 'complaints & discipline'.
• High speed chases will always proceed from an area of light traffic to an area of extremely heavy traffic.
• From behind you, the bad guys can see your night sights as well as you cop, and you can never drive fast enough to please the ones who do.
• Any suspect with a rifle is a better shot than any cop with a pistol.
• On any call, there will always be more 'bad guys' than there are good guys, and the farther away your back up, the more there will be.
• The longer you've been a cop, the shorter your flashlight and your temper gets.
• Whatever you are about to do, if there is a good chance it will get you killed, you probably shouldn't do it.
• You should never do a shotgun search of a dark warehouse with a cop whose nickname is "Boomer ".
• The better you do your job, the more likely you are to be shot, injured, complained on, sued, investigated, or subpoenaed on your day off.
• If a large group of drunk bikers is "holed-up" in a house, the Department will send one officer in a beat car. If there is one biker "holed-up" in a house, they will send the entire S.W.A.T Team.
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