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When Should the Police Make an Arrest?
According to national data, about thirty people a day die in drunk driving crashes. In some states they require officers to make an arrest. I think that many police officers exercise discretion when they can, but as you go up the threat level of behavior, drunk driving, fighting with weapons, shooting, discretion becomes less of a choice because there is other risk involved. There is a legitimate balancing here of objectives and of goals, but there's no question that this is not an easy, cut and dried kind of answer....