After completing your observations of Officer Jones, you are asked to summarize your observations for a study being conducted by an ethicist studying police behavior.? Let’s assume that the driver turned out to be an undercover police officer who was engaged in surveillance. Jones intended at first to write a citation. However, when he found out the driver was an officer, he decided to let him go, so that the undercover officer would not have attention drawn to him while Jones wrote the citation. Jones decided that letting the officer go would best serve the greater good. This would be consistent with:?
a. universality
b. professional courtesy
c. utilitarianism
d. deontology
Answer: c. utilitarianism
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false
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