Murphy's Law
for Law Enforcement
*The Mayor will only get a traffic ticket the
day before your department negotiates for a salary
increase.
*Your mouthiest traffic violator will be related to
the Mayor.
*Anyone that flirts with you on-duty won't even
recognize you off-duty.
*The one time you cuss on the radio, your chief will
be listening.
*Pens NEVER leak onto old uniform shirts.
*Do unto others, But do it first.
*NCIC will be down anytime you see a car listed on a
hot sheet.
*You will only lock yourself out of your cruiser
when a Supervisor is on the scene, about to arrive on
the scene, or is the only person available to fetch the
spare set of keys from the station.
*You will only forget to go to court when the case
is presided over by the meanest judge in town.
*Coffee Machines only break down on the graveyard
shift.
*Shatterproof flashlights seldom are.
*Surprise inspections will only occur after you have
been in a foot pursuit through mud.
*The day you let your girlfriend ride with you, your
wife comes by the station to visit.
*Crime only occurs on days that end in y.
*There will be no parking spaces around the court
house when you are running late to appear.
*You will only be stopped for speeding off duty when
you have forgotten your Drivers License and Badge.
*No patrol car assigned to you will be clean and
have a full tank of gas when you get in it.
*Your radar will only malfunction when you see a car
you know is going at least 100 MPH.
*The one time you wake up late and don't have time
to iron your uniform is the one time the chief comes to
roll call.
*Coffee jitters will never bother you until firearm
qualification day.
*You will never get the urge to use the restroom
until you have left the station.
*Vehicle pursuits will always progress from areas of
low traffic density to areas of high traffic density.
*You will only roll through a stop sign when your
chief is sitting on the other side of the intersection.
*Court will be cancelled only after you have changed
all your plans to be there.
*For every good deed you do there is a lawyer to
undo it.
*Your pen will only run out of ink when you are
ready to write a ticket.
*Court will be scheduled in the middle of your days
off.
*You are ALWAYS downwind from pepper spray.
*If the air is out on your patrol car the suspect
will smell worse than a wet dog.
*Your patrol car will only break down 10 minutes
before the end of your shift.
*The first sip from the first cup of coffee at the
beginning of your shift usually triggers the dispatcher
to send you on an emergency call.
*Whenever you're in a hurry is when the slowest
drivers are on the road.
*Computers only delete reports when they are nearly
finished.
*Just when you are thinking about making a pit stop
in case they call you for an emergency, they'll call
you for an emergency.
*After all is said and done, a hell of a lot more is
said than done!!!!
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