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Georgia Ann Robinson (née Hill; May 12, 1879 – September 21, 1961) was an American police officer and community worker who was the first African American woman to be appointed a police officer at the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD); she was also one of the first Black policewomen to be hired in the country. She joined the force in 1916 ...
Data available from 1995 onward from the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports keeps records of numbers of female and male police officers at all levels: local, state, and national, with local police departments keeping records and then reporting to the FBI.
The Wylie Police Department's new uniforms were just named tops in the nation among departments with 51-100 officers by the North American Association of Uniform Manufacturers and Distributors.
The advent of professional police forces in the United States foreshadowed the introduction of standardized police uniforms. While uniforms for police had been introduced in the United Kingdom as early as 1828, adoption of standardized dress in the United States took longer, with many of the new police objecting to uniforms out of concern they ...
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Police officers. It includes police officers that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. See also: Category:Women sheriffs
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]
Multiple media organizations have described the image of Evans as "iconic". [a] Teju Cole, writing in the New York Times Magazine, names Bachman's photograph among a group of images of "unacknowledged everyday black heroes" connected to the Black Lives Matter movement, such as those of a man throwing a tear gas canister during a protest in Ferguson, Missouri after the 2014 shooting of Michael ...