Luke William Hunt’s The Retrieval of Liberalism in Policing opens with a proclamation of certain uncertainty. Legal and political norms that once supplied a clear conception of how best to govern and what it meant to be governed, particularly in the West, have been untethered from the moorings that might have once fastened the modern democratic polity. What unfastened that mooring, however, is unclear: “Norms are changing”, Hunt writes, but “it is not altogether clear when and why things began to change” (p. 1). The norms to which Hunt refers are those of the liberal tradition, broadly construed, and his objects of analysis are the methods and practices by which “policing in liberal societies”—though, especially the USA—has become illiberal. This move places Hunt in crowded terrain, as the last two decades have suffered no shortage of accounts that map the gulf separating US policing from the political ideals it purports to espouse. However, unlike other attempts to navigate this space, which have tended to favor questions of administrative and constitutional law, public policy, and democratic theory, Hunt turns to moral philosophy. What might be required of policing, Hunt asks, if against these changing tides, we returned to the basic tenets of the liberal tradition?

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书评：卢克·威廉·亨特（Luke William Hunt），《警务中的自由主义的复兴》

卢克·威廉·亨特（Luke William Hunt）的《对警察的自由主义的取回》首先宣布某些不确定性。法律和政治规范曾经为如何最好地治理以及如何治理（特别是在西方国家）提供了清晰的概念，但与曾经巩固了现代民主政体的系泊系统脱节了。然而，尚不清楚该系泊设备的固定方式：“规范正在发生变化”，亨特写道，但“并不清楚何时何地开始发生变化以及为什么一切开始发生变化”（第1页）。亨特所指的规范是被广泛解释的自由主义传统的规范，而他的分析对象是“自由主义社会中的警务”（尤其是美国）成为自由主义的方法和实践。此举使亨特（Hunt）处于拥挤的地形，在过去的二十年中，由于没有不计其数的账目，这描绘了将美国警务与它所主张的政治理想区分开的鸿沟。但是，与其他试图在此领域中进行探索的尝试不同，后者倾向于支持行政法和宪法，公共政策和民主理论，亨特转向道德哲学。亨特问，如果面对这些变化的潮流，我们是否回归自由主义传统的基本宗旨，警务可能需要做什么？