The Ethics of Policing
John Kleinig
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996

This book is the most systematic, comprehensive, and philosophically sophisticated discussion of police ethics yet published. It offers an in-depth analysis of the ethical values that police, as servants of the community, should uphold as they go about their task. The book considers the foundations and purpose of police authority in broad terms but also tackles specific problems such as accountability, dirty hands, loyalty and cynicism, the use of force, deceptive strategems used to gain information or trap the criminally intentioned, corruption, codes of ethics, affirmative action, police strikes, and the tension between personal values and organizational ends.