During the time of the reform era there was a considerable amount of police corruption and abuse of power. Ties between police and politicians seemed to be the leading factor in police corruption. A number of police administrators wanted policing to be acknowledging as a respected profession, so they made an attempt to alter the course of policing in the United States. August Vollmer was the first to make an effort to reform policing. He was followed by his protégé O.W. Wilson. Both men supported strong managerial control, a centralized command structure, a hierarchical organizational structure, specialization of task and operational efficiency. Wilson developed a nine-principle organizational management model that focused on how to control
