August Vollmer; the father of American policing
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August Vollmer; the father of American policingEntry/Object ID
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Willard M. Oliver. Prologue: January 16, 1904 -- Youth -- Germany to America (1869) -- New Orleans (1869-1875) -- Childhood (1876-1890) -- San Francisco (1890-1891) -- Berkeley (1891-1898) -- War (1898) -- Battle & insurgency (1898-1899) -- Police chief -- A proposition (1900-1905) -- Town marshal (1905) -- Marshal Vollmer (1905-1906) -- Earthquake (1906) -- The progressive (1906-1907) -- Police education (1907-1909) -- Police chief (1909-1910) -- Lydia (1910-1915) -- Crime lab (1916-1917) -- College cops (1917-1919) -- A national reputation (1917-1922) -- Lie detector (1921-1923) -- L.A.P.D. (1923) -- L.A. politics (1923-1924) -- The BPD (1924-1929) -- College professor -- University of Chicago (1929-1931) -- University of California at Berkeley (1931-1933) -- Author & professor (1934-1937) -- The criminologist (1937-1941) -- Retirement -- Retirement (1942-1949) -- Decline (1950-1954) -- Suicide (1955) -- Epilogue: legacy (1955+) -- Acknowledgments -- Sources -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Photo credits -- Index. xvi, 785 pages ; 26 cm. HV8145.C2 O45 2017Lexicon
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Police -- California -- Biography., College teachers -- California -- Biography., Criminologists -- California -- Biography.Legacy Lexicon
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Call Number: HV8145.C2O45 2017
Spine Label: HV8145
C2O45 2017