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newbem · **on:** Jul 10, 2018

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?

Question 2

The National Security Agency operates an electronic eavesdropping operation that some have criticized as violating Americans' civil liberties.

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

akudia · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 10, 2018

Answer to Question 1

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.

Answer to Question 2

TRUE