The law enforcement field has been an intense topic of discussion, more specifically police officer accountability and the use of excessive force. In many cases women officers’ perspectives have been silenced pertaining to violence and their contributions to the changing landscape of this country have been nonexistent.
During World War I, Emma Baker, known in Indianapolis for her laundry business, was recruited to become one of the city’s first Black police officers and one of 13 women in the Indianapolis Police Department’s all-female unit. A few years later, her all-woman police unit had become the largest in the world with 23 officers.
The National Center for Women and Policing found in 2013, there were over 900,000 law enforcement employees in the U.S. with 26 percent of them being female but only 11.6 percent of them being officers. – READ MORE
