Police policies are a guidance for officers to determine which people to detain or search as …show more content…
If they use accountability means that those who police are responsible to the interests of those who are monitored. For example, to minimize racial discrimination, young black men should be presented in a way that they were no more or less likely to be arrested than others. If police paid less attention to the interest of young black men and took into account the interests of others, then those arrested would be more likely to believe that their arrest is justified. To attain justice, accountability needs to be added to discretion (Pepinsky, 1984). Nevertheless, problems associated with discretion require a control system which includes policies and laws that limit the officer’s use of discretion. Also if there was supervision of officers, it may also contributed to be used as a control measure in limiting the misuse of the