He said quotas robbed officers of their "most powerful tool" — discretion.
Sometimes, whether we like it or not, the brand is more powerful than our discretion.
Joe Sims, of Jones Day in Washington, DC, reckons that the commission is likelier to bring cases because the European courts are a less powerful check on its discretion.
"The law allows a prosecutor the discretion to abandon prosecutions against powerful defendants –- even when judges have found probable cause for the case to move to trial.
The states felt disempowered.The commission has now been replaced with a less powerful think-tank, Niti Aayog, leaving the states with more discretion over what they spend.
However the more capable the candidate is, the more likely the Commission President will assign them a powerful portfolio, the distribution of which is entirely at his discretion.
Historically, even the most powerful agents in civilian society have accorded the military all but unfettered discretion to curtail the civil rights of its members.
Prosecutors are the most powerful actors in the criminal justice system; they have enormous control and discretion over the course and outcome of criminal cases.
Sometimes able technocrats get powerful political posts, and sometimes in the courts, in the Federal Reserve we give them relatively unconstrained discretion.
Discretion means more MOPPS.
Discretion is everything".
