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Orlando W. Wilson

American police reformer

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    Ironically, Wilson, Vollmer’s protégé, became the architect of the new crime-fighting model. As chief of police in Fullerton, Calif., and Wichita, Kan. (1928–39), professor and dean of the School of Criminology at the University of California, Berkeley (1939–60), and superintendent of the Chicago Police Department (1960–67),…

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