Vollmer saying in a speech to a group of officers. “You prevent people from doing wrong,” a protégé recalled Mr. Vollmer’s ideal world, cops would never have to bust heads instead, they would use their smarts to bring about social reforms that prevented people from becoming “crooks” in the first place. He eventually replaced them with college-educated people, hoping they would usher in a new, progressive era in policing. What’s rarely talked about, however, is that he began his tenure as the head of the police department of Berkeley, Calif., in 1905 by forcing all of his deputies to resign - arguably a kind of early experiment in abolishing the police. He has also been criticized for pioneering the militarization of the police and espousing the racist theories of eugenics. August Vollmer has been hailed by many in law enforcement as the father of modern American policing.
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