August Vollmer
American police reformer
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- In police: Early reform efforts
…in the United States was August Vollmer. Beginning his career in 1905 as the head of a six-person police department in Berkeley, California, Vollmer ultimately produced a vision around which the country’s police forces rallied. He promoted the application to policing of concepts from the study of management, sociology, social…
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