August Vollmer: The Father of American Policing

by Willard M Oliver and Willard M. Oliver

Listen to the History Repeating Itself podcast with the author. Watch this short YouTube clip of the author discussing Vollmer's use of bicycles in the Berkeley police department. August Vollmer was one of the most extraordinary men ever elected town marshal and appointed police chief in American history. It was Vollmer who brought policing out of its wholly corrupt and often brutal era of politics, by professionalizing not only his own police department...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611635594
• ISBN13: 9781611635591
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
• Length: 804 Pages
• Weight: 3.05 lbs.