SAN JOSE — Driving around in the morning last week, Officer Cat Alvarez squinted outside her windshield and eyed the road ahead.
A 17-year veteran of the San Jose Police Department, Alvarez has done it all and seen it all. She has worked on the East Side, in downtown, daytime and in the dead of night. She is one of 88 female officers at the Police Department.
It’s the lowest number of female officers on the force since 1993 and far under the peak of 139 seven years ago, corresponding to a drop in the overall number of San Jose cops, who number just under 1,000 from a high of 1,400 officers in 2008. – READ MORE
