title: Police Ethics: A Matter of Character
author: Douglas W. Perez
description: Perez teaches courses in criminal justice, focusing on the police, law and society, the drug war, and introductory courses. After serving as both a police and correctional officer, he began teaching at the college level on a dozen campuses around the nation. In addition to consulting for numerous police departments and the federal government, he has published Common Sense About Police Review and Police Ethics: A Matter of Character (with J. Alan Moore).
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  Devil's Due
  
  By
  
  Rachel Caine
  
  Red Letter day book # 2
  
  * * *
  
  It's an unusual thing to do, dedicating a book to a couple of bestselling
  authors, but here goes:
  
  Thank you to Charlaine Harris and
  
  Carole Nelson Douglas, for being such
  
  amazing people, and writing such amazing work.
  
  I'm privileged to know you. Not deserving, but
  
  extraordinarily, overwhelmingly privileged.
  
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  Prologue
  
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  CASE NOTES
  
  LUCIA GARZA
  
  FILE #20050228-
  
  PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL
  
  INVESTIGATION SUBJECT: BENJAMIN MCCARTHY, 44-year-old white male BACKGROUND:
  Exemplary Kansas City police detective. Decorated multiple times and given
  awards for meritorious service. Served with the KCPD his entire career, from
  1985 until his suspension and subsequent conviction for murder in 2003.
  Incarcerated in the Ellsworth correctional facility. Appeals continue.
  
  PERSONAL: McCarthy was born and raised in Kansas City to a middle-class
  famil