CASE 7.1
Anthony is a new police recruit who just graduated from the police academy and has been hired by a large metropolitan police department in Florida. He reports to work for his first shift and is assigned a field training officer, Jeffrey. Anthony is excited to begin his work as a police officer, as this is something he has wanted since he was a child. During Anthony's first shift he meets many of his fellow police officers. He is given a lot of different advice by these different officers. He quickly learns that there are different policing styles.
-Harold, Anthony's field training officer, hears all the advice that Anthony is getting. He explains to Anthony that once he is off of probation, the majority of what he does every day will not be subject to administrative review and thus there is a lot of autonomy in his position. He tells Anthony that he must decide what style of policing he will follow. This concept of having a high degree of personal discretion is referred to as:

Question

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The concept being described is low-visibility decision making, where officers have a high degree of personal discretion in their daily work once they are off probation. Thin-blue-line decision making refers to officers' loyalty to fellow officers above all else, double marginality refers to the unique challenges faced by minority officers, and overload hypothesis refers to the idea that officers experience significant job stress and burnout.

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