What is administrative discretion? Suppose you are a police officer who believes that the recreational use of small amounts of marijuana does not pose a significant risk to the user or to the general public

How would this belief likely affect your use of administrative discretion when you encounter small-time recreational marijuana users?

What will be an ideal response?


An ideal response will:
1, Define administrative discretion as the authority of bureaucrats to select among various responses to a given problem.
2, Describe how the police officer could use administrative discretion to be lenient on small-time marijuana users. Rather than issuing a citation or arresting the user, the officer could instead issue a formal or informal warning or ignore the infraction altogether.

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