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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 ...

Interestingly, when police discretion was first “discovered” in a study commissioned by the American Bar Association, police administrators called for its elimination. They viewed discretion as the ...

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 ...