Advantages Of Police Discretion

Question 1

How does police discretion cut costs?

Answer 1

E.g. no cost effective for a police officer to attempt to pull over everyone he suspects of speeding and search their vehicles. Police discretion allows a police officer to focus on situations where he believes a law is actually being broken in reckless fashion

Question 2

How does police discretion provide realistic goals?

Answer 2

Police are presented with unique situation me that require personal judgement depending on the situation

Question 3

How is police discretion efficient?

Answer 3

If police were to follow law meticulously the criminal justice system would be overwhelmed with the number of cases presented to them