Now it becomes a play on words, she says. Everyone will take the police officer at his word because he has the respect of other members of society and superiors. Another example would be a police officer not ticketing a citizen for going seventy miles per hour at sixty-five miles per hour, even though the law states that the speed limit is sixty-five miles per hour. five miles an hour. Rank-and-file bureaucrats will get the benefit of the doubt over everyone else since they interact with most members of society in a very direct way compared to everyone else. With the discretion and autonomy of rank-and-file bureaucrats, this gives them the ability to bend the rules a bit by creating their own public policy. Bending the rules can either be a beneficial thing for society or something that could upset it. Rank-and-file bureaucrats incorporate public law into a new law to change the standard of law due to their discretionary power. The current law is not in accordance with the law said by the policeman, but now a new public law has been