Speeding. An overdue inspection. A crack on a windshield. Police cited these reasons, among others, for traffic stops in ...

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Massachusetts police now have sweeping discretion to decide which criminal records they will – and will not – release to the public, according to a series of rulings made by Secretary of State William ...

Trayvon Martin’s tragic death last month focuses attention on Florida’s “Stand Your Own Ground” self-defense law as well as racial profiling as many people believe that George Zimmerman’s fatal ...

LETTER | The classification of a police report is at the discretion of the police. The police also can, upon suspecting an offence has been disclosed even when there is no police lodged, begin ...

Crime will always exist. The 36,000 inmates in Virginia’s prisons, and the billion dollars the commonwealth spends on them every year, are proof of that. About 28,000 more sit in city and county jails ...

This automatically makes discretion of a police officer subject to scrutiny, especially with the activist media we have in Pakistan now. A wise officer learns that it is often better to ignore some ...

Police chiefs in Massachusetts are allowed to use their judgment when deciding to issue a gun license, and it’s that suitability standard in the law that some have criticized. “The biggest concern I ...

When a driver is arrested on suspicion of drunken driving in Utah, police officers have discretion in deciding whether to jail or cite and release the suspect. The Standard-Examiner checked with ...

When your country is run by a man who shows little concern for the traditions and rule of law, whose every other statement is either an ambiguity or a joke, here’s the thing: the police can refuse to ...

In our October 2013 policy white paper on police body cameras, we struggled with how to ensure that the cameras would serve as an effective oversight mechanism for police while not unduly invading ...