Citizen review boards were created to get an outside perspective in maintaining effective discipline, citizen resolution, and as a mediator between administrators and citizens due to police misconduct (Gaines & Keppeler, 2011). In other words, both the Internal Affairs and the external citizen review boards partake in investigations to get an independent observation of the complaints against officers and their departments. Under the legislative branch, discretion can be controlled through the enactment of laws, legislative oversight and funding (Gaines & Keppeler, 2011). For example, the enactment of laws that cannot be misinterpreted is evident in domestic violence cases in making it mandatory to arrest the primary aggressor instead of leaving it up to police discretion to make that
Citizen review boards were created to get an outside perspective in maintaining effective discipline, citizen resolution, and as a mediator between administrators and citizens due to police misconduct (Gaines & Keppeler, 2011). In other words, both the Internal Affairs and the external citizen review boards partake in investigations to get an independent observation of the complaints against officers and their departments. Under the legislative branch, discretion can be controlled through the enactment of laws, legislative oversight and funding (Gaines & Keppeler, 2011). For example, the enactment of laws that cannot be misinterpreted is evident in domestic violence cases in making it mandatory to arrest the primary aggressor instead of leaving it up to police discretion to make that