For the second day in a row, I had court on my day off. Overtime pay is nice, but every day that I don't have to put on a uniform and strap up is a blessing.

Yesterday, a juvenile I arrested for robbery took a plea deal, 14 months of probation, and adjudication of guilt withheld. You wonder why young criminals turn into older criminals; no real consequences for their criminal behavior.

Today, it was a young woman I cited who crashed into a parked car. Just a little fender-bender in the parking lot of the grocery store. Now I don't normally write citations to people involved in a crash, I mean isn't bad enough to be involved a crash? However, she did not have a driver's license; I don't mean that she wasn't carrying a driver's license, she never went through the process to obtain a license. I couldn't really turn in a crash report indicating a driver without a license wasn't cited, so I wrote her a ticket. She came to court with her small child in tow, I told the judge that I really couldn't recognize her face, so the ticket was discarded. The victim of the crash told me that the insurance company representing the car of the unlicensed driver paid for her repairs. Justice served in my opinion.