Discretion is not necessarily a bad thing whether talking about everyday people or police but it can become an issue when police fail to do their job and don't presume innocence before guilt, meaning that by automatically assuming guilt before innocence a police officer is using negative discretion and in fact could end up leading to a tort case against the state. ... Wilson argues that police make judgments about situations and individuals, and they practice distributive justice (Dunham &Alpert 120). ... For example, if an officer in a fairly rich neighborhood pulled over a black male ...

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In the two-year period from January 1995 to December 1997, 70% of the drivers stopped and searched by the police were black, while only 17.5% of overall drivers " as well as overall speeders " were black.6 To look at similar case in Volusia County , Florida, in 1992, nearly 70% of those stopped on a particular Interstate highway in central Florida were black or Hispanic, although only 5% of the drivers on that highway were black or Hispanic. ... The car filled with young black men was stopped by the police several times; the white group was not stopped once, despite observing polic...

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"For both Colbert and the Philadelphia police department, a nightmare was about to begin. ... School Boy' the police chief contested that "At the "end of the day- given how we lied on the probable cause, I'd say that almost all of our [2,233] arrests were bad-. 2. ... In this article Reverend Sharpton tells about a young girl getting killed sitting in her car waiting for her gas to fill up. ... This particular article is a little bias, just for the reason that it is only targeted at Blacks, and no other minority groups. Minorities, and about one in 10 (11.1 percent) believed th...

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