The Moral Dilemma Of A Police Officer In The Division Of Juveniles

My ethical dilemma deals with a police officer who is in the division of juveniles. This officer enjoys her job very much and believes she has made a difference in many juveniles that has encountered her. The captain told the police officer that she is to pick up a juvenile, even though there is no probable cause to take the juvenile into the station. Supposedly, this would have been the third time the captain told her to pick up a juvenile. She later discovers that the juvenile that she is supposed to pick up is going to be used as an informant. This juvenile would be an informant to arrest a suspected drug dealer that is related to this juvenile. In this dilemma the officer faces a moral decision of the principles of what is right and wrong. In this situation the moral dilemma she faces would be telling her captain, no she won’t pick up the juvenile. Yes, in a job situation, when you are being told what to do usually you would do it, but in this case she is doubting her captain’s decision to do so. If she says no to the officer, she could be possibly be fired from the job that she loves, or she will be treated poorly by the captain and other officers. If this officer believes her captain is doing the wrong thing than she could go talk to the chief of police about what is going on, but that can …show more content…
Within making her decision of what to do in the situation she needs to evaluate the morality of this decision and what is ethically right to do. Does this officer have the ethics to make the right decision or not? Ethics are the discipline to be able to define her moral duty to the juvenile and to her job. Another moral dilemma she faces is picking up the juvenile or not, even though there is no cause to do so. Is it right for the officer to pick up a juvenile without probable cause? Is it right to put the juvenile in a sticky situation to catch a suspected drug dealer when it is a relative of