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My morals stem from my religious beliefs, the laws of our country, and how I feel it is appropriate or inappropriate to conduct yourself. One person’s morals can interfere with another. I believe when you are in certain careers you may have to quiet your own morals so that they don’t interfere with the ethical standards of your position. Ethics are important for law enforcement because it keeps individual personnel from stepping outside the boundaries and helps in attaining as much fairness as possible. There will always be individual law enforcement officers that drift outside their boundaries, but we hope that with ethical standards that they would be punished in some way if they are in the wrong. One thing to note is that there are times in an officer’s day where he/she may pull over a speeding car and not write a ticket because the passenger is giving birth. Instead of writing them a ticket the officer would give them a police escort to the hospital to ensure they arrive safely. Now the driver may have committed an act that is against the law, but for a good reason and by giving them an escort to the hospital instead of a speeding ticket is considered by our society to be the right thing to
