You know your in training / trying to be a leo when you are sitting on the bench at the dojo and Sensi walks up and gives his back to you, and all you can think about is how you'd cuff them from the rear....

GDE856 says ...

You know you're no longer a rookie when a dirtbag calls you a PIG and instead of busting his head you reply, "Yep that's spelt P.I.G. It stands for professionalism, Integrity and Guts. Thanks for the compliment, come with me.

My usual response was, "Yes, I am a pig, now.  But in twenty years, I will take off my badge and uniform when I retire.  Then I will no longer be a pig.  You, however, will be a wothless POS until the day you die."  I was never debated on that response for the rest of my career.

Stillmissit

YKYALEO when you go to a prison rodeo and want the bulls to win.

Y.K.Y.(Were) A.L.O.W.  .........  You go to the Wal-Mart Super Store in the neighboring town, Walk in, See a mixed bag of Humanity... Only to Have EVERYONE say "Good Evening Officer" as you wander by ..............    and You've been retired for 5 years.

(Actually Happened to me)

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Y.K.Y.A.L.O.W.  .........  Before I retired, I was in the local grocery store in Civilian Clothes and a lady I barely knew said loudly " I didn't recognize you with your clothes on" 

  Everyone turned around and looked.

  I said "Thanks" and made a break for the door.   :)

KRG123 says ...

Y.K.Y.(Were) A.L.O.W.  .........  You go to the Wal-Mart Super Store in the neighboring town, Walk in, See a mixed bag of Humanity... Only to Have EVERYONE say "Good Evening Officer" as you wander by ..............    and You've been retired for 5 years.

(Actually Happened to me)

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Y.K.Y.A.L.O.W.  .........  Before I retired, I was in the local grocery store in Civilian Clothes and a lady I barely knew said loudly " I didn't recognize you with your clothes on" 

  Everyone turned around and looked.

  I said "Thanks" and made a break for the door.   :)

 

I did the same only in reverse.  For some oddball reason, my wife sent me to a grocery store to get something.  I kept noticing that the wife of another LEO was staring at me trying to figure who I was.  I waited until she was in an aisle with a lot of people.  I walked up to her and said, "Don't you recognize me with my clothes on?"  She stammered and stuttered until i mentioned my name.  Her response was, "Now I recognize you."

Stillmissit

 

 You know your a LEO when......  The officers that come to you house fo a loud party complaint stay for 30 mins talking and clear with "UTL" while at the same time you didn't touch the volume on the stereo.

ponytail says ...

WHEN ...u get commended for showing up at work. When you have a cold, and routinely blow your nose using toilet paper from rolls found in any police car, or on any desk, and you think this is a normal, rational, hygienic behavior. There are more people in the operations room than working on the street. You have two pairs of uniform pants; one for every other week. You come home after last-out more rested than when you got there. You don't tell your spouse about the Holiday and Uniform checks. You know exactly where to get anything that's free. "No Radio Transmissions" means you start clicking the radio a block away, just in case. You've driven a police vehicle with an expired inspection sticker. The "Check Engine" lights has been on in the patrol car for six months, and you think the other squads are a bunch of bums for not taking it to the garage. You think the most beautiful word in the dictionary is "unfounded". You drive a five-year-old police car with 180,000 miles on it, and it's considered new. You are sure you are not a raciest, sexist or homophone because you hate everyone equally

I had to move my toilet paper to the side to get to the key board.   Hell its softer them Scotts and last a lot longer too.

You Know You Are A Law Enfoircement Officer When (future)... Who pass ANY officer wearing uniform/plainclothes and you turn around to check out his/her weapon(s)!!!!  And then stand there staring at them a few minutes mumbling under your breath --"someday...."

You Know Your LEO............... When the only time certain members of your family call is when they get a ticket and wonder if you can FIX it for them.

You know You Are A Law Enorcement Officer When....you ask a naked man for I.D.

Yep, did that.  It's proof that you do resort back to your training under stressful situations.  :)

When you arrest a guy and he resists...so you spray him and he runs...and you chase him and have to use force to contain him...and he doesn't make a complaint but instead he whines to the media...and the department decides that constitutes a complaint so you find yourself under investigation.

Still waiting to find out if I will be charged.

hbgale says ...

When you see an idiot driving like a maniac on the roadway and you start to chase them, only to have your wife remind you that you are not in your patrol car.

LOL----- been there done that, seems the worst offenders are out and you see them off duty

You Know Your A Law Enforcement Officer When... you try roasting marshmallows with your TASER!

You know you are a Law Enforcement Officer when...you find yourself saying, there goes a guy with a headlight out, or his tags are expired, etc.

tendercrusader25 says ...

...when it takes you, a bondsman and another uniform officer to effect the arrest of a guy in a small, crowded bedroom.  Upon returning home, your husband calls and asks, "Well, honey; what did you do today?"  And you smartly reply (as I did), "Well dear, I was rolling around in bed with three men today."