The Michael Slager shooting of Walter Scott in South Carolina brings to light many issues related to discretion. Police officers are given discretion in a number of ways. First, they have discretion on who they pull over and who they do not. While it might seem logical that an officer...

Ethical dilemmas are extremely common in law enforcement. Even though lawmakers may strive for precision when wording the laws, issues are not always black and white; there is a great deal of gray as well. In order for a police officer to act appropriately when confronted with an ethical dilemma,...

The issue of ethnicity and racial biases by police through traffic stops, arrests and searches has raised different controversies in the United States of America for more than ten years. The controversies have raised concern seeing that; a large number of American citizens tend to believe that the police treatment...

Determining which types of nonlethal force police officers should have access to is a difficult decision. In assessing the various types of nonlethal force made available to police officers, I would outfit my officers with tasers and ASPs. Tasers allow police officers to use nonlethal force in order to control...

The decision by the grand jury not to indict Fergusson Police Officer Darren Wilson in connection with the shooting of Michael Brown sparked widespread demonstration across several US cities including Ferguson, in Missouri. The riots could have been prevented by taking into consideration various factors that touched the community that...