“The newspapers disparaged them as ‘college cops,’ but these diligent young men, armed with degrees and committed to justice, quickly got results. Berkeley’s crime rate started to fall, even though the town’s population had almost doubled since the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. As a result, Vollmer is to this day considered the father of modern policing.” Yes, Berkeley was where modern policing emerged. That’s just one of the surprising and interesting tidbits in this Wired book excerpt. The Lie Detector Was Never Very Good at Telling the Truth. (Now Rupert Murdoch is gonna run out and buy one.)