Chapter 90 August Worman and the American Style of Police Professionalization

August Worman, America's "Father of Captain Wootz's Specialization," was born in New Orleans in 1876.His father died at the age of eight, and his mother brought him back to Germany, where he was born, to live for two years between the ages of ten and twelve.When he was a teenager, Guomeng was keen on boxing, wrestling and swimming.He studied secretarial work for a year at the "New Orleans School," and the family moved to San Francisco and, in 1890, to Berkeley, where the tall, strong lad drove freight cars.Within five years, Wo Meng, who was less than twenty years old, opened a raw materials and coal store in Berkeley.But after the United States went to war with Spain in April 1898, he decided to join the army and fight in the Philippines.

That summer, Urmeng participated in the American attack on Manila and the capture of the Malate fort. In the autumn of 1898, he helped the Manila police. In February of the following year, when the Aguinaldo party rose up, Urumeng volunteered to board an armored ship and bombarded the Filipino guerrillas with cannons. Received a special reputation for liaison missions with the Nado Guerrilla Alliance.Vomeng returned to California after his military service, but the strong and fearless 6-foot-1 had no patience for indoor work and didn't feel comfortable being a civilian. In January 1905, some politically active Berkeley citizens asked Vormund if he would run for the city's police chief on the basis of reform. Guomeng, 29, agreed and was elected.The first major step he took was to close the largest Chinese casino in town and various other casinos.At the same time, he began a series of administrative and technical innovations that made the Berkeley police nationally famous.It was August Worman who pioneered the use of bicycle patrols, created the first regular patrol system, learned and implemented telephone calls and direct-line alarms from a private detective in Los Angeles (he also raised funds to establish the A whole set of alarm system), established a file system, perfected the fingerprint storage method, launched the invention of polygraphs, installed wireless telephones in patrol cars for the first time, and began to appoint college graduates as patrol officers.

August Worman's growing reputation, especially after his election as president of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, not only promised to reshuffle the judiciary in other American cities, but also accepted invitations from foreign governments to reform their ailing police departments .For example, in 1926, Vomeng went to Havana at the invitation of Cuban President Gerardo Machado.When he arrived, the Cuban president regarded him as a kind of professional doctor to treat social problems and said to him: "You are a doctor in the police department. We need you here."

Wurmeng returned to Berkeley after establishing a police training school and establishing a telegraph communication system that healed the Cuban dictator's ailing judiciary.At this point he received yet another request for help from a foreign government: this time the invitation came from the Nationalist government in Nanking. It is said that Superintendent Womeng called Captain Wu Zi to his office and said to him: "Captain, this letter is from the police chief in Nanjing, China. They need real help. How about you to do this job?" So, Wu Zi Went to China in 1930 as a police adviser, working for the central government and the Guangdong Ministry of the Interior.Worman, who stayed in Berkeley, developed criminology at the University of California and trained more and more students who came to him to learn police management.