Assignment:
Instructions
You will develop a paper that addresses the issues below. You are to use the textbook readings, unit lessons, and required unit resources in the unit to complete the assignment. Also, use your personal experience when addressing the issues below.
- Locate and briefly describe a recent police discrimination case in the United States.
- Discuss the meaning of police discretion, why it is necessary, and why it needs to be controlled.
- Identify how implicit bias may affect police discretion.
- Discuss the ways in which discretion may be controlled.
- Discuss the limitations of organizational rules and policies in controlling the discretion of officers.
- Describe the limitations of trying to control police discretion by enhancing the professional judgment of officers.
Your paper should be a minimum of two pages in length, not counting the title or reference pages. Please use APA Style when developing this assignment. In-text citations and references will be required for all sources that are used. Please note that no abstract is needed.
Readings:
The Uses and Abuses of Police Discretion: Toward Harm Reduction Policing
By Katherine Beckett