More Phelps

If Michael Phelps were to have committed his egregious infraction in Newark, NJ later this year, he would've fallen under the jurisdiction of Mayor Cory Booker's community courts. These courts, the first of their kind in New Jersey, allow local residents to decide if low-level drug infractions warrant public community service.

Instead, South Carolina police are spending money, time and resources trying to put him in jail, where Phelps would be unnecessarily taking up more state money, time and resources.