Police are given the opportunity to form various outcomes in the criminal justice development (Kent & Regoeczi, 2013). Police policies let law enforcement to interfere with people over others, more invasively, based on area they live in or how they act or if the police gather information from a suspect due to their past with criminal activities (Miller, 2015). This permits them to be able to stop, search, detain and arrest any citizens because they are able to make decisions without being supervised and are comfortable with their position of control. This questions whether police are capable of using discretion at appropriate times especially when it has the potential to be used unfairly. Therefore, discretion is a required component of the system (Cihan & Wells, 2011). This study investigates the advantages and disadvantages of police discretion as well as how police discretion can be efficiently controlled.
Police policies are a guidance for officers to determine which people to detain or search as …show more content…
If they use accountability means that those who police are responsible to the interests of those who are monitored. For example, to minimize racial discrimination, young black men should be presented in a way that they were no more or less likely to be arrested than others. If police paid less attention to the interest of young black men and took into account the interests of others, then those arrested would be more likely to believe that their arrest is justified. To attain justice, accountability needs to be added to discretion (Pepinsky, 1984). Nevertheless, problems associated with discretion require a control system which includes policies and laws that limit the officer’s use of discretion. Also if there was supervision of officers, it may also contributed to be used as a control measure in limiting the misuse of the
Police policies are a guidance for officers to determine which people to detain or search as …show more content…
If they use accountability means that those who police are responsible to the interests of those who are monitored. For example, to minimize racial discrimination, young black men should be presented in a way that they were no more or less likely to be arrested than others. If police paid less attention to the interest of young black men and took into account the interests of others, then those arrested would be more likely to believe that their arrest is justified. To attain justice, accountability needs to be added to discretion (Pepinsky, 1984). Nevertheless, problems associated with discretion require a control system which includes policies and laws that limit the officer’s use of discretion. Also if there was supervision of officers, it may also contributed to be used as a control measure in limiting the misuse of the