The Spokane Police Department was entering a new era by hiring its first female police officer.
There had previously been jail matrons and the occasional special female operatives for undercover work, but not a true woman cop.
The editorial page of The Spokesman-Review seemed to applaud the move. It said the idea that policewomen are not practical is an outdated idea that “belongs to the obsolete theory that woman are somehow inferior to men.” – READ MORE
