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>based on available resources and public policy You missed a few criteria: - Cultural, political, racial grievances of police. - Cultural, political, racial
by everybodyknows 6y ago
>based on available resources and public policy
You missed a few criteria:
- Cultural, political, racial grievances of police.
- Cultural, political, racial prejudices. That is, maybe no ill will per se toward a citizen who looks a certain way -- but assumed guilt by association.
- Personal ambition, to be pursued by making lots of arrests, on maximal charges.
- Fear. End of month approaching, and beat officer is behind on quota of citations/arrests. Punishment expected from chief or DA, if revenue from fines, or prestige from high-profile arrests are lacking.
So, it's the selection of offenders, rather than of offenses due to resource constraints, that makes selective punishment so ethically offensive.
- dogma1138 6y agoThese technically fall under public policy, poorly aligned incentives and or insufficient judicial/executive oversight. If officers feel that they need to make their quota or even have an arrests/infraction quote then that's a clear failure of policy, if they feel that they can settled their own grievances by abusing their power it's again a failure of policy.