Police Discretion Analysis

Yesenia Gonzalez
What are your thoughts on the multiple examples of the officers’ use of discretion?
Since I started to read “cop in a Hood” I get to understand in a deeper way how police officers work in the state and in the county where I live: Baltimore, specifically the eastern district. I know that no one is perfect and when I say “no one” that also includes police officers. Now back to the question, I will answer that it all depends on the people, the citizens. The police uses discretion in multiple times, sometimes for their own safe, just to be “good people” or for convenience as Moskoz establishes in his book when he mentions how “one officer described an unorthodox approach he used very rarely: “Sometimes I’ll flip a quarter for …show more content…
The same thing happens with police officers, according to the book, they do not want to fill a lot of paper work or support a rebel and stupid teenager. In my opinion I will say that people look at police officers with respect most of the time and in other times they look at them as the bad guys, but it all depends in which case police officers decide to use discretion. A personal example would be when about a year ago I was pull over because I did not pay the renewal sticker for my car, I didn’t have a license at that moment, I was driving with my learner’s permit, so when I saw the cops I knew I was in a trouble. The police officer gave multiple tickets, one was for not having my sticker, the other was because I was driving without my identification; however, he didn’t give me a ticket for driving without a license, I believe that that is a type of discretion because he gave me a warning instead, so I wasn’t that upset, but I wasn’t really happy either, but I knew it was a good deal, so I was okay with it. I think that if at that time I would have had my license, I would have been very upset for the ticket that he gave for not having the