Why is Healthy Discretion a Critical Tool When Working in the Criminal Justice System?

There are numerous reasons why healthy discretion is a critical tool in the criminal justice system. Here are a few of the reasons I think healthy discretion needs to be used in all decisions made in the criminal justice field whether it's officers, lawyers, courts or corrections facilities.
The most visible and possibly most important is police discretion or an officers ability to decide to arrest or not arrest someone purely on the basis of his or her own judgment. Using healthy discretion this decision would be based on the circumstances surrounding the situation without including rac…