They [legislators] criminalize behavior usually because it threatens public safety but sometimes [they] also employ moral definitions for deciding which behaviors should be [deemed] legal and which should be [deemed] illegal [at times under subjective standards, while at other times under objective standards] (Pollock, 2010). “Protection of public morality” is the rationale for a number of laws, including those involving drugs, gambling, and prostitution (Pollock, 2010). This perspective of utilitarianism is an ethical mentalist theory which holds that the right or proper course of action is one which maximizes the overall good of society as a whole. Under such a form of consequentialism, this utilitarianist lens establishes that the moral worth of an act or an action is determined by its result or outcome. Police officers, who enforce the laws created by legislators, have a great deal of discretionary power (Pollock, 2010).…