Ethics and Moral Agent
University of Phoenix Material
Ethical Dilemma Worksheet
Incident Review
1. What is the ethical issue or problem? Identify the issue succinctly.
There are ethical concerns, which involve law enforcement acting inappropriate as they deal with a DUI case or criminal violence. In order for the officers to charge the husband with driving under the influence (DUI), Nixon and Rook had to say they seen the husband driving his vehicle before failing the sobriety test. Though in the first report Nixon and Rook said they each had seen the husband walking not driving his blue station wagon. In the second report, Nixon and Rook stated they saw the husband driving the blue station wagon.
2. What are the most important facts? Which facts have the most bearing on the ethical decision presented? Include any important potential economic, social, or political pressures, and exclude inconsequential facts.
The officers have changed events in the second report, and the officer’s supervisor agreed the report and the report was giving to the prosecutor Ross Acute. The second report said that the husband was actually driving his blue station wagon intoxicated to justify the charges that Nixon and Rook arrested the husband on. With facts that the husband’s vehicle was warm to the touch and that the husband had possession of his keys in hand, though this does not state that the husband was the one to be driving the vehicle last while under the influence of alcohol.
3. Identify each claimant (key actor) who has an interest in the outcome of this ethical issue. From the perspective of the moral agent—the individual contemplating an ethical course of action—what obligation is owed to the claimant? Why?
Claimant
(key actor)
Obligation (owed to the claimant)
Perspective (What does the claimant hope will happen?)
Husband
Fidelity, non-injury
Officers are to protect the husband not alter any facts to suit officers own needs.
Officers Nixon and Rook
Ethical Dilemma Worksheet
Incident Review
1. What is the ethical issue or problem? Identify the issue succinctly.
There are ethical concerns, which involve law enforcement acting inappropriate as they deal with a DUI case or criminal violence. In order for the officers to charge the husband with driving under the influence (DUI), Nixon and Rook had to say they seen the husband driving his vehicle before failing the sobriety test. Though in the first report Nixon and Rook said they each had seen the husband walking not driving his blue station wagon. In the second report, Nixon and Rook stated they saw the husband driving the blue station wagon.
2. What are the most important facts? Which facts have the most bearing on the ethical decision presented? Include any important potential economic, social, or political pressures, and exclude inconsequential facts.
The officers have changed events in the second report, and the officer’s supervisor agreed the report and the report was giving to the prosecutor Ross Acute. The second report said that the husband was actually driving his blue station wagon intoxicated to justify the charges that Nixon and Rook arrested the husband on. With facts that the husband’s vehicle was warm to the touch and that the husband had possession of his keys in hand, though this does not state that the husband was the one to be driving the vehicle last while under the influence of alcohol.
3. Identify each claimant (key actor) who has an interest in the outcome of this ethical issue. From the perspective of the moral agent—the individual contemplating an ethical course of action—what obligation is owed to the claimant? Why?
Claimant
(key actor)
Obligation (owed to the claimant)
Perspective (What does the claimant hope will happen?)
Husband
Fidelity, non-injury
Officers are to protect the husband not alter any facts to suit officers own needs.
Officers Nixon and Rook