Things I learned at juvy today

1. We had an officer show up for court in a short sleeve shirt, and wearing full-length sleeves. Same cop. One arm looked like Speed Racer, the other was anime - esque too. OPD seems very broad-minded. Apparently when the officer is on the beat downtown, the tats are an icebreaker with the hip kids and the street people. Lesson: tattoos can help you in your job.

2. If you're a foster kid and you misbehave, before calling law enforcement, at least one group home will first try sending you to a De-Escalation Room. Lesson: if the prosecutors had one of these rooms at the main courthouse, I might still doing adult cases.