Police Deception and Dishonesty
The Logic of Lying
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 22 April 2024
- ISBN 9780197672167
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages256 pages
- Size 221x160x48 mm
- Weight 499 g
- Language English 556
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Short description:
Luke William Hunt is a philosophy professor and former FBI Special Agent. In Police Deception and Dishonesty, he evocatively illustrates how the police's widespread use of proactive deception and dishonesty is inconsistent with fundamental norms of political morality. Drawing on his experience, a range of literature, and case studies regarding interrogations, undercover operations, pretextual detentions, and other common scenarios, Hunt makes a compelling case that many proactive tactics erode public faith in the police institution and weaken the police's legitimacy.
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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.
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.
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
