If anyone has any advice on the subject of police discretion, please let me know. Currently, I am working on a paper about that very subject. It is turning out to be one of those papers where I am not sure of the side I am taking while I am writing it. Sort of the ‘your thesis materializes as you go’ paper.
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My line on police discretion would be that, well, moving it up the chain into something like ‘parliamentary discretion’ would make the issue a bit more bureaucratic and lengthy, not to mention opening up more possibility of corruption. As long as wide-ranging guidelines are followed, enforced and reinforced throughout a system at least a pattern of discretion could be influenced. I have no idea what the training is like for it now, but if regular guidance was given to officers, then one would hope that less rash choices of individuality could dominate situational responses.