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By the late Middle Ages, indulgences were used to support charities for the public good, including hospitals. [8] However, the abuse of indulgences, mainly through commercialization, had become a serious problem which the church recognized but was unable to restrain effectively. [9]
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]
Both women pleaded guilty. That same year, 18-year-old Bryan Alexander died of pneumonia while confined at a Correctional Services Corp. boot camp outside of Fort Worth, Texas. A report from the Texas Rangers, the state’s premier law enforcement unit, laid out a chilling portrait of neglect.
Research shows that most victims of police sexual assault and harassment were women, who in many cases were weak to an officer's authority, such as arrestees, confidential informants, incarcerated people, sex workers, and police investigators (young people who were interested in a career in law enforcement). [60] [61]
“He took away what were supposed to be the best years,” one young woman told a judge in 2015, according to a local news report, before a California police officer was sentenced to 45 days in ...
The Texas Killing Fields is a title used to roughly denote the area surrounding the Interstate Highway 45 corridor southeast of Houston, where since the early 1970s, more than 30 bodies have been found, and specifically to a 25-acre patch of land in League City, Texas [1] where four women were found between 1983 and 1991.
Until 1998, women in the police had their rank prefixed with a letter W (for example, "WPC" for Constable). In March 2016, 28.6% of police officers in England and Wales were women. [25] This was an increase from 23.3% in 2007. [25] Notable women in the police include Cressida Dick, the former Commissioner of London's Metropolitan Police Service.
A woman in Plano, Texas, has been convicted on charges of hate crime in connection to a 2022 incident in which several Asian American women were physically and verbally attacked.