3. 
Recruits, for the first time, would attend a training academy (police did not receive any 
formal training prior to August Vollmer’s arrival) 
4. 
Assisted with the development of the School of Criminology at the University of California 
at Berkeley 
Chief August Vollmer saw policing and officers as social workers that needed to delve into the causes 
behind the acts in order to solve the issue, instead of just arrest it. 
3 He knew in order to rehabilitate 
offenders, police officers needed to look behind the handcuffs and start looking into the person and reason 
behind the behavior. 
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3. Reppetto, T.A. (1978). The Blue Parade. New York: Free Press. 
4. Reppetto, T.A. (1978). The Blue Parade. New York: Free Press. 
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