AJ 102 Chapter 4: AJ 102 discretion and discrimination
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Discretion and discrimination: where individuals have discretion, individual biases and perceptions of groups such as women, minorities and homosexuals that affect their decision taking, the world views of officiating cers influence the way they do their work. When such views contain prejudicial attitudes against groups, and judgments are influenced by these biases, such groups may not enjoy the same rights as good people. It is even more of a concern as the workplace police community promotes prejudicial attitudes of citizens " classes. Essentially, when police operate on biases when doing their work, they either discriminate in allocating resources or enforcing the law. Discrimination also takes the form of either unequal application of the law or preservation of the law"s rights and benefits (kappeler, sluder, and alpert, 1994: Some police officers, as the in the news box shows, can express extremely negative stereotypes about certain groups.
