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In 1995, 9.8% of sworn police officers were women. [27] This number grew in the next decade; in 2005 female police officers made up 11.2% of all sworn police officers. [28] One decade later, the number of policewomen has grown little, from 11.2% in 2005 to 11.9% in 2014. [29]
Surveillance video from the police station taken after the arrest shows officers laughing, mocking Garner, and exchanging fist bumps while watching their own body camera footage of her injury and arrest. A lawsuit, filed in April 2021, alleges that the officers used excessive force and failed to provide Garner with timely medical attention.
The sexual orientation of a police officer can also influence the experiences of that officer. Women with non-heterosexual orientations deal with an additional set of stereotypes, exclusion, and harassment. Galvin-White and O'Neil (2015) examined how lesbian police officers negotiate their identities and relationships in the workplace.
Video footage of Fred Kerley's arrest by Miami Beach police sparked a wide range of reaction on social media Friday − and renewed an all-too familiar conversation about policing in America ...
The Akron Police Department in Ohio told PEOPLE in a statement that officers responded to a report of an assault — involving a 19-year-old woman who was not identified — on Beardsley Street ...
The ACLU filed a federal lawsuit in Covington, Kentucky, last summer after a video of a school-based police officer shackling an 8-year-old boy with disabilities surfaced online. And in October, the FBI and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of South Carolina began investigating the in-school arrest of a teenager who was violently ...
A suburban New York police department routinely violated residents’ civil rights, including making illegal arrests and using unnecessary strip and cavity searches, according to a new U.S ...
Police Women of Maricopa County is the second of TLC's Police Women reality documentary series, which follows four female members of the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office in Maricopa County, Arizona. [ 1 ]