SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — For decades, women have been working their way up the ranks at police departments across the country, but the numbers are low in the homicide department.
Watching TV, you would think there was a woman homicide detective in every department in America, but just 15 percent of homicide detectives nationwide are female.
San Francisco homicide inspector Holly Pera is one of them. There were just 20 women in the department when she joined the force in 1980. In 1998, she became the first female homicide detective in the department’s 150 year history. – READ MORE
