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newbem

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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



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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.

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newbem

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Reply 2 on: Jul 10, 2018
Excellent


dreamfighter72

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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
YES! Correct, THANKS for helping me on my review

 

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