Originally Posted by Platoniuos

Though surely there should be some humanised discretion deployed by policemen. I understand that discretion is cheifly the role of the courts but a little common-sense in evaluating the severity of an incident would only aid the efficiency of the legal system. Like in the example of the rebel cursor, would it not have been more sensible to have a quite word with him. If policemen follow rigid rules when concerning themselves with such small, relatively insignificant things, they might aswell not be human. This is not for a second to infer that they should not follow the rules and laws fundamentally, though just to make humanly intuitive distinctions.