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What is police discretion? How do internal an external mechanisms influence police discretion? Is there a better solution to improving police discretion?

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Police discretion is the police officer's ability to use discretionary decision-making in the fulfillment of their duties. For example, an officer pulls over a speeding car and finds that a person is rushing to the hospital, and the driver is a doctor who just got called in on an emergency. Instead of delaying the doctor, he issues the doctor a verbal warning. The police officer has used their discretionary judgment to give the driver a verbal ...

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