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This 3 pape paper provides an overview of the issues and ethical problems facing undercover police officers. This paper considers the specific types of ethical arguments in relation to their actions. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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expected to don a persona, often a criminal persona, and participate in behaviors that allow them access to criminals or criminal organizations. One of the most difficult questions, then,
is if police officers should be allowed to commit crimes during their carrying out of undercover duties. First and foremost, it is important to recognize that police officers
that are acting undercover are participating in an organizationally sanctioned lie. They are already crossing and ethical boundary by taking on a different persona, by creating a distinct lie
and by bringing others into that lie in order to ensure that their identity as a police officer is protected. For example, if a police officer is going undercover
to uncover a drug production facility hidden in a home, the police officer might lie to a drug dealer in order to gain access to the facility. The lie
may be an ethical gray area, but it is viewed as a necessary part of the undercover work required to accomplish the task. The lie is weighed against the
greater good of uncovering the drug operation and shutting it down. In order to justify participation in a fabricated identity, and the secretive use of lies to support this
identity, police officers frequently apply the ideal of distributive justice and subsequently perceive job satisfaction in relation to their capacity to complete the given task (e.g. successfully shutting down the
drug operation) (Farmer, Beehr & Love, 2003). Different ethical perspectives can be used to defend both sides of this issue. Ethicists like Immanuel Kant would maintain that
officers committing a crime are doing just that, committing a crime, and there is no ethical argument in support of the commission of a crime, even if it is committed
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