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August "Gus" Vollmer (March 7, 1876 – November 4, 1955) was the first police chief of Berkeley, California and a leading figure in the development of the field of criminal justice in the United States in the early 20th century. Vollmer was born in New Orleans to German immigrant parents, John and Philopine (Klundt) Vollmer.

Police Reform in the United States: The Era of August Vollmer, 1905–1932.

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Vollmer had discovered that very little literature existed in the United States on the . He retired from the Berkeley Police in 1932 as his eyesight began to fail.

Vollmer had discovered that very little literature existed in the United States on the subject of police work, so he located and read a number of European works on the subject, in particular, "Criminal Psychology", by Hans Gross, an Austrian criminologist, and "Memoirs of Vidocq", by Eugene Francois Vidocq, head of the detective division of the French police in Paris. Vollmer became afflicted with Parkinson's Disease late in life, and also cancer. He refused to be bed-ridden, and chose to end his own life at age 79 in 1955.

August Vollmer, police chief in Berkeley, California from 1905 to 1932, had a good understanding of the process of shifting . Gene E. Carte and Elaine H. Carte, Police Reform in the United States: The Era of August Vollmer 1905–1932, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975).

August Vollmer, police chief in Berkeley, California from 1905 to 1932, had a good understanding of the process of shifting entrenched cultures within an organization.