The purpose of this paper is to develop a prima facie case for the argument that (a) in the future, police operational procedures and their posture towards techniques of social control will be heavily influenced by the hermeneutic paradigm of policy analysis and policymaking; (b) the hermeneutical paradigm in contrast to the current and dominant utilitarian-positivist paradigm, will facilitate and move policy analysis towards a more acceptable definition of democracy; and (c) the currently evolving hermeneutical paradigm is legitimated by the moral and epistemological considerations of three early American pragmatists: Dewey, James and Mead.
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