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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]
Discrimination among female police officers also seems to be prevalent even though black police officers, both male and female, make up only 12% of all local departments. [42] There is also the issue of women being excluded from special units, with at least 29% of the white women and 42% of the black women mentioning this phenomenon. [41]
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Two Indianapolis police officers were acquitted early Saturday of using excessive force to strike two women with batons during arrests at a May 2020 protest against racial ...
This is a list of law enforcement officers convicted for an on-duty killing in the United States.The listing documents the date the incident resulting in conviction occurred, the date the officer(s) was convicted, the name of the officer(s), and a brief description of the original occurrence making no implications regarding wrongdoing or justification on the part of the person killed or ...
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department Tuesday released body camera footage — and officer commentary — of a viral, controversial and forceful arrest in Charlotte’s Steele Creek area ...
Des Moines City Council will consider paying out nearly $2.4 million to four female employees alleging decades of sexual discrimination in the Des Moines Police Department. Four female officers ...
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.
In the early 1990s, Mohr became the first female police officer in the K-9 unit of the Prince George's County Police Department in Maryland. "I knew that I had to work harder than the average male ...