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Police Deception and Dishonesty Summary

Police Deception and Dishonesty: The Logic of Lying by Luke William Hunt (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Alabama)

Cooperative relations steeped in honesty and good faith are a necessity for any viable society. This is especially relevant to the police institution because the police are entrusted to promote justice and security. Despite the necessity of societal honesty and good faith, the police institution has embraced deception, dishonesty, and bad faith as tools of the trade for providing security. In fact, it seems that providing security is impossible without using deception and dishonesty during interrogations, undercover operations, pretextual detentions, and other common scenarios. This presents a paradox related to the erosion of public faith in the police institution and the weakening of the police's legitimacy. In Police Deception and Dishonesty, Luke William Hunt--a philosophy professor and former FBI Special Agent--seeks to solve this puzzle by showing that many of our assumptions about policing and security are unjustified. Specifically, they are unjustified in the way many of our assumptions about security were unjustified after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, when state institutions embraced a variety of brutal rules and tactics in pursuit of perceived security enhancements. The police are likewise unjustified in their pursuit of many supposed security enhancements that rely on proactive deception, dishonesty, and bad faith. Hunt shows that there are compelling reasons to think that the police's widespread use of proactive deception and dishonesty is inconsistent with fundamental norms of political morality regarding fraud and the rule of law. Although there are times and places for dishonesty and deception in policing, Hunt evocatively illustrates why those times and places should be much more limited than current practices suggest.

Police Deception and Dishonesty Reviews

Luke Hunt's Police Deception and Dishonesty offers a penetrating exploration of a problem that has received less attention than that of outright police violence, but is arguably even more pervasive and pernicious. Employing his well-trained philosophical chops, and drawing on his experience as a former FBI special agent (surely, an exceptionally rare combination), Hunt offers a compelling argument for the vital role that truthful and honest policing needs to play in a liberal society. * Stuart Green, Distinguished Professor of Law, Rutgers University *
Luke Hunt is one of today's leading philosophers on policing. In Police Deception and Dishonesty, he weaves together philosophy and real-world experience to show how many deceptive practices widespread in policing, whatever their short-term benefits, can have devastating consequences for police legitimacy. This book is essential reading for philosophers and practitioners alike. * Ben Jones, Assistant Director and Professor, Rock Ethics Institute, Public Policy, Penn State University *

About Luke William Hunt (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Alabama)

Luke William Hunt is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alabama, where he teaches in the department's Jurisprudence Track. After graduating from law school, he was a law clerk for a federal judge in Virginia. He then worked as an FBI Special Agent in Virginia and Washington, D.C., followed by his doctoral work in philosophy at the University of Virginia. He is the author of The Retrieval of Liberalism in Policing (Oxford, 2019) and The Police Identity Crisis: Hero, Warrior, Guardian, Algorithm (Routledge, 2021).

Table of Contents

Preface The Logic of Lying: Five Presumed Justifications for Police Dishonesty Introduction: On Beating a Broken Bone with a Boot PART I THE IVORY TOWER 1. Force and Fraud in the World (and the Nine Circles of Hell) Five Questions and Answers Explored in Chapter 1 1. On the Nature of Law (and Cannibalism) 2. Universalistic Positive Morality (and Infanticide) 2. Good Faith Policing Five Questions and Answers Explored in Chapter 2 1. Truth 2. Good Faith 3. Concrete Agreements and Fraud 4. Social Contracts and Institutional Good Faith Interlude: From THE IVORY TOWER to THE STREET Five Questions and Answers Explored in the Interlude 1. Values 2. Methods 3. Other Approaches 4. Trust PART II THE STREET 3. Case Studies: Fraud and Deception as Law Enforcement Means Five Questions and Answers Explored in Chapter 3 1. A Preliminary Objection and Case Study: International Ruse 2. Case study: Covering up 3. Case Study: Controlling Citizens 4. Case Study: Catching Criminals 5. Case Study: Coercing Confessions 6. Case Study: Convicting Citizens 4. Case Studies: Honesty, Transparency, and Democracy Five Questions and Answers Explored in Chapter 4 1. A Preliminary Objection and Case Study: FISA Fiasco 2. Case Study: Pandemic Privacy and Third-Party-Opacity 3. Case Study: Investigating Anarchists and Abortionists 4. Case Study: Pre-crime Epilogue: Beyond Basketball - From Proactive to Reactive The Logic of Legitimacy: Five Justifications for Police Honesty Index

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NGR9780197672167
9780197672167
0197672167
Police Deception and Dishonesty: The Logic of Lying by Luke William Hunt (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Alabama)
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Hardback
Oxford University Press Inc
2024-04-22
248
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