Confession: Just this weekend I returned food at Burger King. Yes, that Burger King.

Order off the menu or go somewhere else.

If an event such as this happens again, I will not accept calling anything other than the Second Cumming.

Come down to WA, we don't discriminate by race: If you've got a B.C. plate, then you're a bad driver, full stop.

Only in Canada would increasing property values be viewed as a negative thing. Are the property taxes really that outrageous?

Shit gets nicer. Oh no.

Julia: "pssssh, of course I went short. It isn't like I'm going to the Oscars."

See #1. Desktop! I can count 4 easily-accessible USB ports, and that is just on the front of this beast! I've got a bunch more in the back too.

I saw 3-ply the other day at Target. 3-ply! Just think of the squishy splendor!

#1. Seriously. I will give up my at-home desktop when someone prys it from my dead hands, and not a minute before. I'm right there with you: I like a real mouse, keyboard, chair, desk, and large screen.

I'm not disagreeing with you. I'm saying that entrusting police officers with that kind of discretion is dangerous, because exercising such discretion —not arresting people when a valid arrest could be made— is the exact sort of practice that leads to vastly unequal arrests amongst different communities for the exact…

I get where you're coming from, I really do. And, as someone who grew up in a fairly rural community with mostly chill police, that was largely their attitude. I've personally benefited from it. There have been times, in my interactions with police as a very young adult, that I was very lucky. Someone else might…

Absolutely.

Do you think the relative strength of the the police and prison guard unions — ostensibly the most powerful in the nation— is driving legislative action to increase criminal penalties, and thus the massive rates of incarceration in the country?

Chief Stamper:

re: Essentially we've criminalized poverty and created an industrialized prison system to profit from it.

Can you cite that study, btw? Please.

If an officer arrests someone for something they think is against the law they should be charged with false imprisonment.

Define "over-arrest." To me, that means an illegal arrest; one for which there was not probable cause. If there is probable cause, and the crime is an arrestable offense, then the police officer is doing their job by making the arrest.

A police officer isn't a lawyer — what charges are filed, and if they are filed at all, is completely up to the DA's office.