Ethics Reports
Reports
- Protecting Civil Rights: A Leadership Guide for State, Local, and Tribal Law Enforcement
- Police Leadership in the 21st Century (May 1999)
- Police Accountability and Citizen Review (June 2000)
- The Public Image of the Police
- IACP Ethics Training Survey
- A Best Practice Guide for Internal Affairs: Strategy for Smaller Departments (includes a Professional Standards Checklist covering the process for receiving a complaint of misconduct.
- Building Trust Between the Police and the Citizens They Serve: An Internal Affairs Promising Practices Guide for Local Law Enforcement
- Standards and Guidelines for Internal Affairs (COPS Office)
- How Police Supervisory Styles Influences Patrol Officers Behavior (NIJ)
Articles
Drug Related Police Corruption:
Noble Cause Corruption:
- Unconstitutional Policing: The Ethical Challenges in Dealing with Noble Cause Corruption, (October 2006)
- Dodging the Pitfalls of Noble Cause Corruption and the Intelligence Unit, (October 2009)
- Updating Ethics Training—Policing Privacy Series: Noble Cause Corruption and Police Discretion, (March 2011)
Lying, Untruthful Employee:
- Police Officer Truthfulness and the Brady Decision, (October 2003)
- Disclosing Officer Untruthfulness to the Defense: Is a Liars Squad Coming to Your Town, (November 2005)
- The Untruthful Employee: Is Termination the Only Response, (August 2010)
- Ethical Defensibility: Should an Officer’s ‘Willingness to Deceive’; Result in Automatic Certification Revocation, (February 2014)
Policing Privacy:
- Updating Ethics Training-Policing Privacy Series: Taking Race out of the Perception Equation, (January 2011)
- Updating Ethics Training-Policing Privacy Series: Respecting Society’s Evolving Privacy Expectations, (February 2011)
- Updating Ethics Training-Policing Privacy Series: Noble Cause Corruption and Police Discretion,” (March 2011)
- Updating Ethics Training-Policing Privacy Series: Managing Risk by Reducing Internal Litigation, May 2016)
- Ethics Training for Police, (November 2006)
Preventing Ethical Transgressions:
- How Police Supervisory Styles Influences Patrol Officers Behavior, (ND)
- Ethical Issues in the Use of Confidential Informants for Narcotic Operations, (June 2007)
- Doing the Right Thing: Contributing to the Advancement of the Police Profession, (December 2015)
- How to Encourage Reporting of Professional Misconduct, (December 2015)
- Mistakes, Reasonable Mistakes and Unforgiveable Mistakes: The U.S. Supreme Court’s Ruling in Heien v. North Carolina, (December 2015)
- Turning ‘Us Against Then’ into We’re In This Together, (December 2015)
- Unjust Arrest: Means of Police Harassment, (September 2015)
Unconstitutional Policing:
- Ethical Defensibility: Using the Intelligence Led Policing Template to Avoid the Appearance of Unconstitutional Policing, (December 2013)
- Unconstitutional Policing, Part 1: Redefining the Police Ethics Paradigm, (September 2015).
- Unconstitutional Policing: Part 2: Minimizing Liability Strategies That Start and End at the Top, (October 2015)
- Unconstitutional Policing, Part 3 – A Failure to Train Is Compensable Liability, (November 2015)
- Ethical Defensibility: Minimize Liability by Clarifying Conflicting Police Values, (January 2014)
- Minimizing Risk by Defining Off-Duty Police Misconduct, (June 2007)
Measuring Professionalism:
- Measuring Professionalism of Police Officers, (August 2006)
- The Professionalization of Policing in the UK: A Vital Opportunity to Improve Ethical Standards, (December 2015)
- Ethics and Professionalism: No Lying, Cheating, or Stealing, (November 2012)
- Leadership Integrity: How to Get It, How to Keep It, and Why It Matters, (January, 2015)
- Leadership and Management: Fraternal Twins in Law Enforcement, (April 2016)
