While most Americans hold at some sort of moral and ethical standard, Police officers and other forms of the legal profession should and have been held at a higher standard than the common citizen. People working in the legal profession are not only held up by the morals and ethics codes of their personal beliefs, religious, and social circumstances, they are held by the standards of the municipality and the opinions of their supervisors. However people are people and the examples and standards the Chief and other high ranking officers set, will trickle down and set an example for the officers under their command. These factors contribute to the need for the citizen review concept. The employees of the legal profession have to go through mental and physical evaluations regularly. Some adjustments should be made however. When an officer is fired for misconduct, the next employer will not get those details. It is illegal for the previous employer to go into details, they may only give neutral reviews. If an officer was terminated for violence and other forms of misconduct, it should be able to be shared freely. This would prevent some of the occurrences that regularly circulate through some of the social media sites. This would reinstate the public trust. This would mean that end result would be best for the …show more content…
Different society, cultures and time periods have different general opinions on what is considered socially acceptable. Ethics tend to dictate the “norms” of each profession and social circumstance. Most ethical standards tend to have common traits: honesty, integrity, fairness and honor. These standards also relate to a person’s obligation to(or not to) offer assistance in another’s time of need. Ethics doesn’t just involve following the written rules of your employer, It is also personal. “The core of ethical decision making and behavior is “doing the right