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>Now, police are free to choose not to arrest people for committing this crime. And prosecutors are free to choose not to prosecute people who break the law in this way.

We have many decades of data indicating that relying on police discretion breeds corruption and unfair treatment of marginalized groups (i.e minorities).




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