SSCI1000U Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Racial Profiling, Selective Enforcement, Police Misconduct
30 Nov 2015
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Racial profiling occurs when police action is initiated by statistical profile of race, ethnicity, or national origin of a suspect, rather by any evidence or information that suspect had broken the law. Case probability is defined as those situations where some factors relevant to a particular event are comprehended, while class probability describes those situations where enough is known about a class of events to describe it using statistics. Police discretion involves: according to roberg and kuykendall (1993) Deciding whether to get involved in an incident in the first place, although no choice may be open if the officer is responding to a citizen complaint. Determining how to behave in any particular incident, or how to interact with the victim, witnesses or the public. Selecting one of many alternatives in dealing with the problem. Invocation discretion refers to situations in which a police officer decides to arrest an individual.
