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Chapter 9 Police and Society Police Discretion and Community Relations Exam Questions and Answers
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Chapter 9 Police and Society: PoliceDiscretion and Community Relations
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Discretion: - Answers -
The police are street interpreters of the ? - Answers -law.
The police selectively determine what and how the law is to be? - Answers -enforced.
Police discretionary decisions are frequent street decisions, directly affecting? -
Answers -individual citizens and neighborhoods.
Discretion is ? - Answers -an exercise of individual choice for judgment.
The range of choices may be limited by ? - Answers -certain legal, administrative, or
ethical bounds, or it may appear to be limitless.
Discretion requires discerning or distinguishing among ? - Answers -options.
Elements of Discretion: - Answers -
Discretion is personal, which means that? - Answers -individual experience, education,
style, goals, and ethics are all involved in the decision-making process.
Discretion requires judgment, which means that some choices are made among
perceived ? - Answers -options.
Discretion often grants both? - Answers -personal autonomy and personal influence
over the lives of others.
The ability to discriminate is part of the exercise of ? - Answers -discretion, but to use it
differently or favor on the basis of anything other than individual method is an abuse.
Exercising Discretion in the System: - Answers -
Police, many times during their work, will make decisions that, in effect, suspend or
modify what? - Answers -statutory laws.
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