Recently, intense public scrutiny has been focused on highly publicized police misconduct cases across the country, from the Los Angeles Police Department’s Rampart corruption incident to the Houston Police Department’s shooting of a Mexican immigrant to the New York City Police Department’s broomstick incident. With each new headline, anxiety and mistrust of police officers and their departments increases. Police executives now find themselves confronted with the same question: is the so-called code of silence really fact or fiction, reality or perception?