FALL
OF
DUTY
HOW GOOD COPS GO BAD
FALL
OF
DUTY
HOW GOOD COPS GO BAD
THE BOOK

Fall of Duty

How Good Cops Go Bad

Fall of Duty examines how ordinary human forces can move good people toward bad decisions—especially when those people are given extraordinary authority.

It brings psychology, history, ethics, and practical judgment together to ask a harder question than simply who the “bad cops” are: how do decent people drift, rationalize, conform, and move lines they once believed they would never cross?

PART I · THE FIRST ILLUSION

PART II · KNOW THE ENEMY

PART III · BUILDING THE MORAL COMPASS

“The greater danger may be moving the line so slowly that you never notice you’ve crossed it.”

ONE INCH AT A TIME
FALL
OF
DUTY
HOW GOOD COPS GO BAD
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