He has been published over 35 times in both practitioner and academic journals on police topics, nationally and internationally. Ross Swope has been an adjunct professor at both Johns Hopkins where he taught ethics and at the American University. He traveled to Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Republic of Serbia at the request of the Department of Justice where he taught senior level management and command staff policing tactics and strategies. Among is many awards and commendations he received the Medal of Valor (MPD’s highest award for Courage) and the Medal of Merit. Following his retirement from the Metropolitan Police Department he was recruited and hired by the Supreme Court of the United States as their Chief of Police where he spent 14 years. At the Court he was responsible for the protection and security for the Chief Justice and Associate Justices, dignitaries, VIP’s, guests and over 300,000 visitors to the Court each year. During his tenure he virtually single handedly transformed a guard force into a top flight, professional, full service police department of over 160 sworn officers. Ross Swope’s 43 years of experience in policing included planning, administration, management, investigations, budgeting, human relations, with an emphasis on leadership. He has effectively applied his continuing education in improving those departments and has always been a forward thinking leader with a vision to constantly improve and progress. Ross Swope has always seen the importance of integrity and ethics in police work. From his earliest days as a sergeant in charge of a squad of police officers he has seen the good and the bad and began to develop a leadership mantra that effectively addressed ethical shortcomings, culminating in his common sense and practical approach to achieving ethical conduct in the performance of officers duties. By invitation, Ross Swope was invited to be the only police officer to give a keynote speech at the Department of Justice’s National Symposium on Police Integrity. This three day event drew 200 participants from a diverse background, including the Attorney General Janet Reno. Ross Swope spoke on his experiences and the application of his leadership style in achieving an ethical police culture. All of the keynote presentations were published in book form by the Department of Justice. Within a few years the Los Angles Police Department suffered a catastrophic scandal, that garnered national attention and was labeled the Rampart Area Corruption Incident. In there search for reasons and solutions to the ethical lapses that they experienced they drew on the book that was published by the Department of Justice. In there review of this book they singled out Ross Swope as the sole individual that identified the problems and had solutions to them that they adopted. Ross Swope knows the police culture as only one who has lived it for 43 years. He has been validated and tested in his approach to creating and improving an ethical police culture that results in a reduction or elimination of police misconduct and use of excessive force.