The lower the honesty and ethics in society, the higher the control by coercion will be required. Whenever we leave honesty out of ethics we have hypocrisy. Ethics also requires action. Ethical and honest people cannot do good by doing nothing. There is no ethics without action.
Ethics leads to law and that leads to freedom.
The former Chief of Detroit is in prison and two officers are in prison for the beating death of Malice Green. Former L.A. Detective Mark Furhman's tape recording during the Simpson trial was heard world-wide. Recently, indictments for corruption have been handed down in Philadelphia on five officers in connection with allegations of planting drugs on innocent people resulting in some 1,400 prison inmates appealing their convictions. Though this may be an aberration, it appears to be alarmingly widespread. The numbers may not be statistically significant considering the 750,000 odd police officers in the country, but the nature of the incidents is sobering.