Luke William Hunt is Associate Professor in the University of Alabama’s Department of Philosophy, where he teaches in the Department's Jurisprudence Specialization and serves as the Director of Graduate Studies. After graduating from law school, he was a law clerk for a federal judge in Virginia. He then worked as an FBI Special Agent in Virginia and Washington, D.C., followed by his doctoral work in philosophy at the University of Virginia. He is the author of The Retrieval of Liberalism in Policing (Oxford University Press, 2019); The Police Identity Crisis — Hero, Warrior, Guardian, Algorithm (Routledge, 2021); and Police Deception and Dishonesty – The Logic of Lying (Oxford University Press, 2024).