Because there are several hundred people in the united states for every police officer, police

   Use discretion in deciding which situations warrant their attention

Explanation:  Discretion is the right, that is, the freedom to decide, on the basis of which they act according to the priority, that is, which situation takes priority in the attention of the police. Such discretion is prescribed and defined in the criminal justice system, and with discretion it strikes a balance in such a system. On the ground, this practically means that police officers have the discretion to stop, search, arrest people, based on their decision, which is presumed to be correct, because it is also assumed that police officers have the power to decide who to stop, search or to arrest.

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the answer is solomon northrup. he was a free-born african american, abolitionist and professional violinist that was drugged, kidnapped and sold as slave in 1841 and remained in captivity until 1853 where he regained his freedom with the of the then-governor of new york, washington hunt. he wrote and published his memoirs "twelve years a slave" in 1853, and in this text, he tells the story of his escape thru one of louisiana's swamps (the great pacoudrie swamp) in which he ended up covered in green slime from crossing the surface of the dead water.