As George Orwell so succinctly argued, power corrupts, and the greater the degree of power that one person has over another, the harder it is to use that power wisely. .We are continually reminded of this fact by the ways in which the police in our communities interact with our citizens. While, of course, there are many dedicated, well-meaning and uncorrupted police officers, the fact that police have the power of life and death over those with whom they come in contact does indeed corrupt some of those police. This paper examines whether, in the fact of such temptations, the police have the power to police themselves.