Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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selective enforcement
The practice of lawenforcement officers who use wide or even unfettered discretion about when and where to carry out certain laws; esp., the practice of singling a person out for prosecution or punishment under a statute or regulation because the person is a member of a protected group or because the person has exercised or is planning to exercise a constitutionally protected right. -Also termed selective prosecution. Cf. VINDICTIVE PROSECUTION. "The chief of police of a New England town once declared to the press that he believed in a strict curfew law, 'selectively enforced.' 'Selective enforcement' in this case means that the policeman decides for himself who ought to be sent home from the street; legislative candour would suggest that if this is the intention it ought to be expressed in the law itself, instead of being concealed behind words that are 'strict' and categorical." Lon L. Fuller, Anatomy of the Law 42 (1968).
selective enforcement.
See SELECTIVE ENFORCEMENT.