To fully understand the situation in New Orleans, one must first understand the issues underlying ethical dilemmas. These dilemmas can stem from a variety of sources, including a conflict between personal and professional values, between two principles, between two actions, each with strong positive aspects as well as strong negative aspects, and between ones' perceived values and one's personal values (Walters, 41).

Additionally, it is important to distinguish between three types of "looting": those acts done for personal gain, those done for necessity in the line of duty, and those in between. In one inciden

The result of this duality of ethics is clearly an ethical problem for the officers (Macintyre, 142). Their oath requires them to enforce two competing ethical actions in this situation, both of which had strong positive aspects and strong negative aspects. To decide between saving the lives of individuals and upholding the law would require the officer to make a personal ethical decision over the value of each responsibility.

On the other hand, however, these officers were professionally responsible for upholding the law, which is clearly against theft of property, be it from a home or a business. In this respect, officers had a responsibility to protect storeowners against theft, and to protect the property of those unable to protect it themselves. By allowing looting to occur, or by participating in it themselves, the officers were clearly violating their professional ethical responsibilities.

When police offers were responsible for looting food, water, clothing, and medicine, or did not attempt to stop those stealing these items, however, the result is an ethical dilemma. On one hand, the officers have a duty to protect citizens. These citizens were ravaged by flood and a lack of federal aid, and were without the basic necessities. In this respect, the officers had an ethical professional duty to assist citizens in whatever way possible to ensure their safety and survival.

There can be no question that the duality of professional ethical responsibility, the conflict between one's personal ethics and one's professional ethics, and the ethical perception of the public had a vas

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