How the amount of discretion can impact a decision

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Assignment:

Respond to each question individually in paragraph summary only

1. Identify the discretionary decision in scenario

What must you decide in the situation?
What are the possible outcomes of this decision?

2. Explain how laws can limit or rely on discretion.

How does the Rhode Island statute affect the decision making process for this situation? Does it limit discretion or rely on it? How?

3. Describe aspects of an agency's culture that can influence discretion.

4. Explain how the amount of discretion can impact a decision.

What amount of discretion is the officer given in this situation?
How does it impact their decision making process?

5. Describe differences between the processes of internal and external decision making.

What decisions are made internally?
What decisions are made externally?
What are the differences?

Scenario: You are a police officer for a large, diverse city in Rhode Island with a population of nearly 180,000.

There are over 400 sworn officers and 70 civilian personnel in your department, along with multiple sergeants and lieutenants and one chief. The police department that you work for practices community policing and places a strong emphasis on community involvement and trust.

You are responding to a call from a neighbor regarding a disturbance next door. When you knock on the door where the disturbance is alleged, a woman with a fresh bruise on her left eye opens the door. When you inquire about the injury, the woman reports that her husband was recently fired from his job, and their loud argument over finances "had gotten out of hand." The woman reports that she and her husband have reconciled, that he is extremely remorseful, and that this type of altercation has never happened in their 10 years of marriage.

The woman does not wish to pursue charges against her husband. In your interview with the husband, he is clearly distraught and regretful over the incident. He reports that he was recently fired, has missed several payments on his mortgage, and is coping with the life- threatening illness of one of their children.

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