Hopps broke so many laws, especially at the end when she returns as a private citizen to ‘take down the bad guys’… along the way she fabricated probable cause, swapped IOUs with a gangster, it’s implied that the DMV guy who gave her data without a warrant gets a pass at the end of the movie… But it’s ok that she did that stuff because she wasn’t granted full access and she’s a good guy.
It’s very much an ‘ends justify the means’ story,