What you should know about cops.

*	When you see an emergency vehicle behind you with it's lights and sirens on: pull to the RIGHT, and Stop. We are usually required to pass cars on the left.
*	Dunkin' donuts has much better coffee than they do doughnuts.
*	When you're driving in the fast lane and you see a cop behind you don't, go 5 mph's under the speed limit. We are not impressed by how safe of a driver you can be, we're trying to go help someone (or catch that guy in the SUV that just cut you off). Safely move over and let us pass by you, please.
*	If you get a warning instead of a ticket from a motorcycle cop...go buy a lottery ticket, because you've already beaten the odds.
*	If a cop causes a car accident, we usually get a ticket and sometimes we get suspended. When is the last time you got 3 days off for rear-ending a guy at Wal-Mart.
*	If you think you can fan all the pot smoke out of the car before we smell it, good luck.
*	We know you've had more than 2 beers. I've never had two beers and driven my car through the front doors of a Toys-R-Us, pissed my pants, and passed out with my foot on the gas.
*	Here's how to get out of a ticket, don't break the law in the first place.
*	If you drive a piece of junk car; this is why you're getting pulled over. In one week I pulled over 10 cars for "minor" equipment violations. 8 out of 10 had no vehicle insurance, 7 out of 10 had suspended drivers licenses, 5 out of 10 had warrants, 2 out of 10 had felony warrants, and 1 out of 10 was a known sex offender with his 12 year old niece in the car without her mothers knowledge. The 2 out of 10 that didn't have any other violations, one was given a "fix-it-ticket", and the other was given a warning. (If you're trying to do the math many had multiple violations).
*	If you've just been pulled over how doing 70 in the 35 DO NOT greet the officer with "what seems to be the problem, officer."
*	We get coffee breaks too, and sometimes we run into stores and do some shopping during them.
*	When you're the victim of a burglary it would be nice if you take the time you spend waiting for the officer to find the model #'s and the serial #'s of the stuff that was taken.
*	Some cops are just jerks, but take heart in the fact that other cops don't like them either.
*	If it's nighttime and you're driving a vehicle with tinted windows and I pull you over. It's not because of your skin color, I usually can't tell if the vehicle even has a driver until the windows rolled down.
*	Cops make mistakes, and sometimes they're big mistakes.
*	Some cops are bad, and sometimes they're real bad.
*	Every time you hear on the news about people running from a crazed gun man, someone's son or daughter in a blue or brown uniform is running AT that crazed gun man.
*	Some city cops don't like the highway patrol, and vice versa.
*	Yes it's true, cops usually don't give other cops speeding tickets. Think of it as an employee discount, and unless you're a habitual speeder all you ever get is a fine.
*	If your local police agency has a helicopter everyone knows it's loud and annoying, but did you know it can cover the same area as 15-20 patrol officers, and safely chase criminals that are driving 90 MPH through city streets. Many times the guy has no idea it's there and slows down.
*	Your 5 year old kid getting pushed down by another 5 year old kid IS NOT a police matter, talk to the other kids parents.
*	If you hit your spouse in front of your children, your children will hit their spouse in front of their children.
*	Police work is ... writing reports.
*	If you rob a gas station you're only going to get $20, but I get to see a K-9 dog use your arm as a chew toy. For all I care you can keep the $20.
*	In 1 year of patrol work in a large city only about 10 mins. would be cool enough to be on COPS. But if COPS was about report writing and accident reports each show would be a year long.
*	Every traffic stop could end in gunfire, but we have to be polite and professional until that time.
*	I've taken about the same amount of men/women to jail for domestic violence, so NO it's not always the man.
*	People love firefighters.
*	Attention Victims: I need to know the WHO,WHAT,WHERE,WHEN, and HOW. Not what meds you're on or what your 15 cats have peed on.
*	Some cops don't like to be called cops I don't know why, but most don't care... we've been called worse.
*	And Last but not least: 99% of Police Officers do their job honestly and with great pride, we try to do our job well. Often we have to work in environments where we are the only ones that have to follow the rules.