Good lord no - they are an apparatus to investigate alleged crimes and bring suspects before a court of law. Sometimes they are called to intercede during a crime in progress. They aren't precognitive.

You know how many calls cops get from paranoid people who watch too much CNN and think the kid who plays video games is a threat? More than one or two. Hard to tell which are real mass murderers in waiting and which are just weird people.

#notalltrolls

you think you're clever but you're just a troll. Slightly more subtle than the rest, but still a troll.

Is there significant cross-posting going on for every Elliot Rodger story? Because it seems like the trolls REALLY LOVE commenting on these stories in particular. I honestly thought, when this story hit last weekend, that EVEN TROLLS would be horrified and would maybe take a break from the harassment. What a naive…

It wouldn't have mattered if they did. What, would they have arrested him for making emo videos?

1) I like your avatar, I am a BMW fan.

Yours is definitely cool. I have the artistic abilities of a concussed lemming, so that just wasn't happening for me.

I have graphics design work in my background (specifically my video editing/animation background), so I did my own, and I'm happy with it.

Thank you! Apparently that's Jim Cooke's work. I was pretty happy when I saw it.

Your new icon/banner combo rocks.

I agree, I thought Springpad's interface was very easy and intuitive to use, Evernote not so much. . . Springpad will be missed. Here's hoping something comes along from the people that created it. They deserved to succeed.

You know what really makes me angry about this? It isn't that these guys are idolizing a killer—there's plenty of sick fucks why idolize murderers of all stripes—its that women STILL can't get the "good" men to believe that hateful misogyny actually exists. They can go and SEE it, and still all I hear is, "Well, he…

"Whyyyy do men think women are never lonely, rejected, ignored?! Is it because the "dime pieces" are literally the only ones on your radars?"

On the one hand, I'm not sure how much more of this coverage I can stand.

"Elliot Rodger and company aren't the mentally ill outliers that the media (and the NRA) depicts them as. They're much more common than we want them to be. They're capable of being functional members of society."

This is most definitely and undeniably awful and transphobic, but after watching uncensored video, I have disagree with your characterization of certain elements. The woman in question was not "stripped." She was rapidly made naked because there's no way a tube top and skirt are going to stay on the course of a…

Stop eating out all the time? Seriously though... We live in Canada where housing is twice as much, taxes are higher, heating costs are higher, and I hear the exact same complaints from people around us making twice as much. In the end people just like their "stuff" too much. They'd rather buy a new car for 5 times…

Your expenses are a CHOICE, not a mandatory payment. If you make $50k/yr, you may think that you need every possible penny you earn to support your lifestyle and your family — but you're wrong. I guarantee that there's someone in a similar position who earns $33k/yr and is just as happy as you are. If you want to…

I don't think they're implying everyone has the capability to do this, just that it's a great goal to strive towards. I make a pretty decent living, but I'm also supporting a family of four on my single income, and with two kids in preschool right now, we just don't have any extra money to really save. I put 5% of…