CRJU110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Christopher Commission
23 Jan 2017
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4th amendment requires probable cause to arrest. The police officer possesses enough facts and circumstance that would lead a reasonable officer to believe the people arrested has committed a crime. Probable cause/reasonable grounds: seriousness of the offense, intimacy (social distance between victim and offender) The greater the social distance between the parties, the greater probability of arrest: disrespect. In a recent police foundation survey of 121 police departments, half of the officers interviewed stated that police are likely to arrest someone because he or she displays a (cid:862)(cid:271)ad attitude(cid:863) to(cid:449)ard a(cid:374) offi(cid:272)er (cid:894)(cid:1006)(cid:1004)(cid:1004)(cid:1004)(cid:895) When someone is being treated differently because of a certain characteristic (their gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, etc. : discretion. Discretion: the use of personal decision making and choice when carrying out the operations of the criminal justice system. Police officers frequently complain that citizens fail to understand police work, do not respect them, or defer to their authority.
