Discuss how officer characteristics influence the discretionary decisions of police officers.
What will be an ideal response?
Officer characteristics include sex, race, ethnicity, age, length of service, educational level, and attitudes of officer. Research has shown that officer characteristics have minimal effects on their discretionary decisions. The two major exceptions seem to be age and sex. Female officers tend to use force less frequently and make less arrests than male officers. As to age, younger officers tend to make more arrests than older officers.
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