The practice of modernizing Russian society at the end of the 20th century has shown that one of the powerful destabilizers in the sphere of legal order is the widening gap between the nature of social transformations and the spiritual and moral potential of the country from year to year. The most disturbing background of modernization was a sharp disorganization, figuratively speaking, of the "spiritual hoops" and foundations of life for Russians. In these conditions, the search for innovative, renewal-oriented approaches is becoming increasingly important, both in relation to the activities of law enforcement agencies and in relation to the entire arsenal of methods and tools used by them. The technologies of development and improvement of the legal order themselves, as well as their target component, also need innovative courage. Assessing the changes that are taking place both in the state-political structures of Russian society and in its law enforcement agencies, it should be noted that the rethinking of priorities in their activities does not yet correspond to the needs and scale of the country's democratization. Until now, law enforcement agencies are most often considered exclusively as an institution of the state, part of its executive structures, an instrument of forceful influence on certain groups of society ("breaking the law"). Law enforcement agencies often see only a force that opposes crime. Such a vision greatly narrows down the real role of law enforcement agencies, whose vocation is not so much to suppress and stop delinquent activities, but rather to create a legal order and protect the rights and freedoms of individuals and society. These goals are defined by law in the Constitution of the Russian Federation. The noted inconsistency between ingrained views on legal institutions and requests for the development of legal bodies leads to certain contradictions between the legislative foundations of their activities and the existing theoretical v ... Читать далее