1. Discretion
Organizational variables are the characteristics of the police department, neighborhood variables such as racial composition of a neighborhood, socioeconomic status of an area, and the neighborhood crime rate and situational variables such as characteristics of the citizen and police, type of call for service or crime and visibility of the encounter. ... It says the police are basing the policy on the state Supreme Court's so called "balancing test" decision (Stein 1). ...
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