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  1. You are and off-duty police officer and are invited to a party at an old friend’s house. It is Friday night, you are off, and have no plans, so you head to the party. Upon arrival, there is quite a gathering in the back yard, so you visit with people and am having a good time. You have had a couple of beers, and then head inside to the restroom when you notice several people in the house around a table with cocaine lines adorning the tabletop. You have never seen these people before, and your friend has been in the back yard the whole time you have been there. You look at them closely and realize that they are a part of a group known to the police department as armed and dangerous. One of them looks up at you and asks, smiling “Do you want a line?” You say “not now.” You go towards the restroom to consider what you will do. You can go out to the car and call for back-up, and conduct a raid. In fact, you know that you will receive a commendation for arresting these individuals. If you do this, they will arrest your friend and he will be implicated. If you do nothing, and the guys are arrested by someone else, they may be able to identify you, and you may be implicated along with your friend. Just then, your friend’s daughter who is 7 comes out of her bedroom and goes into the room with the guys with the cocaine and says to one man, “Uncle Dan, can you fix me some cereal?” You realize if you call for back-up, she might be taken as a hostage. What do you do? What ethical theory or theories supports your decision.

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I have copied and pasted it along with attaching it on a Word document! Let me know if you'd like me to add or change anything!Even though you are
a police officer, you are off-duty. You are not obligated to do
anything about this drug-laden party. Being a police officer is your
career, but it is not your whole life. Even so, you are going
against the law by not reporting the men with cocaine. Cocaine is an
illegal drug, and it is deadly. Anyone can report a person or people
doing cocaine regardless of if they are a police officer or not.
Throughout this scenario, you are using the teleological ethical
theory. You are evaluating what will happen based on each individual
action you could make. It is not good to expect the worst, but it is
best to be prepared. Since you know that
these individuals are armed and dangerous, you should first find your
friend and warn him. It says in the scenario that your friend is in
the backyard. It is only right to inform your friend about your
findings before reporting the individuals with the cocaine. Your
friend probably does not know the severity of these people. This
would be the best option based on the teleological theory, but what
happens after this will also be very major.
After you inform
your friend of these law-breakers, you should tell him that he should
try to end the party or get them out of the house. These men are not
safe and can snap at any minute. They have guns and drugs. If your
friend does not end the party after knowing this information, then
you have a right to report the men abusing cocaine. You don't want
to lose a friend, but you don't want to lose your job or get yourself
in legal trouble either.
When the little
girl comes in the room with cocaine abusers, she calls the one man
“Uncle Dan” so he's either your friend's brother or one of his
best friends. Children should not be around drugs under any...


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