Formalism. According to Albanese (2014), Emmanuel Kant creation of deontological ethics means the ethics of a process is driven, either it accommodates to or breaches a moral basis. Deontology plays a very important role in law enforcement. The ethical intent when determining and accessing a situation officer’s face is important when trying to solve the outcome. Kant believed the main primary focus was the action not the outcome or end result. However in law enforcement the end result is key for the justice system. Officer’s take an oath to protect and serve this is their duty. Regardless if they want to or not this is the obligation they took on, by not abiding by their duty they will face consequences. By law the Chief had to stop and render
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To sum it up if there is no theory behind a decision than deontological ethics have no good intent or purpose. There always has to be a decision theory when ethics are involved. In this case of the Chief and Lawyer the deontological theory that can help Houston’s top cop in moral dilemma is if the lead investigator reveals all the information to the public such as how far off the curb was the lawyer before he was hit, was he talking on his cell phone and not paying attention to where he walking? It’s our duty as citizens to look both ways before crossing an intersection. We may have the right of the way, but it’s are duty to push the crossing signal controller if intersections are equipped with one. The human body is no match to a two ton steel SUV as we see in this case. Emmanuel Kant creation and belief in formalism plays a role in law enforcement by having informants to investigate information for investigators in return the informant faces a lesser charge. In reality it’s unlikely for investigator to drop those chargers to a lesser sentence. Kant’s theory was a person should never be used for an ending
To sum it up if there is no theory behind a decision than deontological ethics have no good intent or purpose. There always has to be a decision theory when ethics are involved. In this case of the Chief and Lawyer the deontological theory that can help Houston’s top cop in moral dilemma is if the lead investigator reveals all the information to the public such as how far off the curb was the lawyer before he was hit, was he talking on his cell phone and not paying attention to where he walking? It’s our duty as citizens to look both ways before crossing an intersection. We may have the right of the way, but it’s are duty to push the crossing signal controller if intersections are equipped with one. The human body is no match to a two ton steel SUV as we see in this case. Emmanuel Kant creation and belief in formalism plays a role in law enforcement by having informants to investigate information for investigators in return the informant faces a lesser charge. In reality it’s unlikely for investigator to drop those chargers to a lesser sentence. Kant’s theory was a person should never be used for an ending