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C_steam · 22-02-2006, 09:56 PM

I don't buy it - sorry. No discretion with speed cameras is there?

By all means read the situation, try to defuse and try to prevent crime being committed BUT once the crime is committed, then discretion just means one rule for some. You can't slice this. The absolute BEST way to undermine a police force is to get the population to believe that they are only patchily enforcing the law.

I would prefer to see real clarity in enforcement, particularly for the petty laws where 'discretion' is used - i.e. if swearing, or littering, police must warn in the first instance but continued action or refusal to - for example - to pick up the litter is an instant fine. No if's, buts, maybes.

22-02-2006, 09:56 PM	#17 (permalink)
C_steam Super Moderator Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Paddling up 5hit creek..... Posts: 7,964	I don't buy it - sorry. No discretion with speed cameras is there? By all means read the situation, try to defuse and try to prevent crime being committed BUT once the crime is committed, then discretion just means one rule for some. You can't slice this. The absolute BEST way to undermine a police force is to get the population to believe that they are only patchily enforcing the law. I would prefer to see real clarity in enforcement, particularly for the petty laws where 'discretion' is used - i.e. if swearing, or littering, police must warn in the first instance but continued action or refusal to - for example - to pick up the litter is an instant fine. No if's, buts, maybes.