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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.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: A Multifaceted Theory of the Police -- 1. Heroes -- Death and Duty -- A Police Case Study -- A Brief History of Philosophy and Psychology -- Old and New Heroism -- Conclusion: Epistemic Entitlement -- 2. Warriors -- War and Police -- Consequential Policing -- Police Militarization -- The Warrior Ideal -- Objections and Positional Requirements -- Conclusion: Fear and Force -- 3. Guardians -- Whom and What to Guard? -- Plato's Guardians -- The Guardian Category Mistake -- Police Archetypes and Individuation -- Conclusion: Democratic Policing and its Limits -- 4. Algorithms and Justice -- The Conflation of Fact and Value -- Policing by Prediction -- Prediction Problems -- Justice through Human Rights -- Legitimacy and Security of Person through Public Reason -- Conclusion: Public Reason through (Procedurally Just) Community Policing -- Epilogue: Reorienting the Police Identity -- Defunding the Police, Abolishing the Police, and Other Political Reforms -- Recruitment, Training, and Values -- Seeking Justice Collectively -- Index.

" There is a growing sense that many liberal states are in the midst of a shift in legal and political norms - a shift that is happening slowly and for a variety of security-related reasons. The internet and tech booms that are paving the way for new forms of electronic surveillance predated the 9/11 attacks by several years, while the police's vast use of secret informants and deceptive operations began well before that. On the other hand, the recent uptick in reactionary movements - movements in which the rule of law seems expendable - began many years after 9/11 and continues to this day. In The Retrieval of Liberalism in Policing, Luke William Hunt provides an account of how policing in liberal societies has become illiberal, in light of both internal and external threats to security. Hunt provides an examination of the moral limits on modern police practices that flow from the basic legal and philosophical tenets of the liberal tradition, arguing that policing in liberal states is constrained by a liberal conception of persons coupled with particular principles of the rule of law. Part I lays out the book's theoretical foundation, beginning with an overview of the police's law enforcement role in the liberal polity and a methodology for evaluating that role. Part II addresses applications of that theory, including the police's use of informants, deceptive operations, and surveillance. Hunt concludes by emphasizing how the liberal conception of persons and the rule of law constrain policing from multiple foundational stances, making the key point that policing in liberal societies has become illiberal in light of its response to both internal and external threats to security. Overall, this book provides an account of what it might mean to retrieve policing that is consistent with the basic tenets of liberalism and the limits imposed by those tenets. "--

Abstract
Plato's Laws include what H.L.A. Hart called the 'classical thesis' about the nature and role of law: the law exists to see that one leads a morally good life. This paper develops Hart's brief remarks by providing a panorama of the classical thesis in Laws. This is done by considering two themes: (1) the extent to which Laws is paternalistic, and (2) the extent to which Laws is naturalistic. These themes are significant for a number of reasons, including because they show how Laws might be viewed as a sophisticated forerunner of natural law theory. The upshot is that Plato's metaphysical commitments about legal ontology allow him to base the truth of legal propositions on the way they relate to the truth of corresponding moral propositions.

This article addresses two issues. First, it critiques a prominent position regarding how affluent states should balance their national interest on the one hand and their duty to aid developing states on the other. Second, it suggests that absent a principled way to balance national interest with international aid, a state's more immediate concern is to comply with its negative duty to not harm other states. To support this position, the article constructs a conception of harm that may be applied to questions regarding a state's negative duties, focusing upon the example of the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights Agreement (TRIPS).

This article addresses two issues. First, it critiques a prominent position regarding how affluent states should balance their national interest on the one hand and their duty to aid developing states on the other. Second, it suggests that absent a principled way to balance national interest with international aid, a state's more immediate concern is to comply with its negative duty to not harm other states. To support this position, the article constructs a conception of harm that may be applied to questions regarding a state's negative duties, focusing upon the example of the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights Agreement (TRIPS). Adapted from the source document.