Police Humor
- "The more we sweat in training, the less we bleed on
the streets."
- "Your life is not my fault."
- "The handcuffs are tight because they're new.
They'll stretch out after you wear them awhile."
- "Take your hands off the car and I'll make your
birth certificate a worthless document."
- "Remember, when you gotta cuff 'em, nobody is your
friend."
- "If you run, you'll only go to jail tired."
- "That says POLICE, not taxi!"
- "Can you run faster than 1200 feet per second?"
- "So you don't know how fast you were going. I guess
that means I can write anything I want on the ticket,
huh?"
- "You can't outrun a radio."
- "Yes, sir, you can talk to the shift supervisor, but
I don't think it will help. Oh, did I mention that I am
the shift supervisor?"
- "Someone somewhere is practicing. If you're not, and
someday, if you should meet, you will lose."
- "Every dog has it's day. Good dogs have two."
- "Warning! You want a warning? Okay, I'm warning you
not to do that again or I'll give you another
ticket."
- "I'd rather have the gear and not need it than need
the gear I don't have."
- "If its worth stopping, its worth writing."
- "The answer to this last question will determine
whether you are drunk or not. Was Mickey Mouse a cat or a
dog?"
- "Fair? You want me to be fair? Listen, fair is a
place where you go to ride on rides, eat cotton candy,
and step in monkey poop."
- "Listen with your ears, not with your mouth."
- "Some people are meant to be cops, and some people
are meant to call the cops."
- "God made tomorrow for the crooks we don't catch
today."
- "God must love stupid people, 'cause he sure made a
lot of them."
- "Life's tough. It's tougher if you're stupid."
- "Bulletproof vests aren't."
- "Law abiding citizens sleep peacefully in their
beds, solely because, dedicated men and women stand ready
to do violence in their behalf."
- "In God we trust, all others we run NCIC."
- "In God we trust, all others are suspect."
- "Just how big were those two beers?"
- "Uh ... yes, Chief, it only appeared as if I wasn't
paying attention to your speech. Actually, you inspired
me to meditate on the mission statement and envision a
new paradigm."
- "No, sir, we don't have quotas anymore. We used to
have quotas but now we're allowed to write as many
tickets as we want."
- "Law enforcement is not a spectator sport."
- "There are multiple copies here. You need to press
down firmly when signing at the bottom of the
ticket."
- "I know, I know! Your kid is an honor student at the
juvenile detention center."
- "I'm glad to hear the chief of police is a good
personal friend of yours. At least you know someone who
can post your bail."
- "You might beat the rap, but you can't beat the
ride."
- "We don't hire cops in this department, we hire
common sense and make cops from it."
- "Shoot them until they think they're dead."
- "I don't believe they should use the electric chair,
they need to use electric bleachers."
- "Handcuffs aren't designed for comfort."
- "Your arrest. You catch 'em, you clean 'em."
- "No, Chief, I swear ... it was my day off."
- "There are no dress rehearsals, and this is the big
time."