Upon considering the daily duties of law enforcement officers, enforcement of the laws and officer discretion are largely synonymous. The circumstances of each situation and the actions of each person dealt with dictates the response of law enforcement. Moreover, after years of deliberation scholars agree that discretion is inherent in the job, but they disagree at what level police should utilize said discretion (Beckett, 2016). Subsequently, there are claims that officers allow some individuals to violate the law while they enforce the same law on other citizens (Sekhon, 2011). In fact, certain people are calling for tighter control over police discretion in the performance of their daily duties. Although there is a portion of officers who
