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Gertrude Schimmel, First Woman NYPD Sergeant, Dead At 96

                  Gertrude Schimmel, a trailblazing NYPD cop who became its first woman sergeant and opened the door for generations of others, died Monday of natural causes. She was 96. Born in 1918 in the Bronx, Schimmel was the youngest of three children in a family of Jewish […]

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