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Police exam 4//Final examDiversity and Inclusion - correct answer ✔✔For many
years, law enforcement was known as a white male dominated
industry even after decades of calls for more diversity in
policing
Reformers have worked diligently to diversify law enforcement
regarding race, ethnicity, and gender
In the last thirty years, minorities have increased exponentially in law
enforcement
Racial Minorities in policing - correct answer ✔✔Such places as Washington DC, African American police
existed
as early as 1861, however by 1940 they represented less than one
percent of the law enforcement population
After World War II, far more minorities hired in law enforcement
increased but equality was another issue
Minority representations in law enforcement, in many communities,
was a product of pressure from the African American community; as
a result departments complied but again equality was another issue
Unequal Treatment - correct answer ✔✔early America begin to see an increase in African American
police in the workforce, equality in work assignments, evaluations,
promotions, and powers to arrest were still an issue
,African Americans were only permitted to patrol African American areas
and neighborhoods and had to call a Caucasian officer to make the
arrest
A 1959 survey of 130 cities and
counties
in the South indicated
that
69 of those counties required
African American officers to call a
Caucasian officer to make an arrest and 107 cities specified that
African American officers patrolled only in African American
neighborhoods
Unequal treatment pt 2 - correct answer ✔✔--
Women in policing - correct answer ✔✔For decades, women in policing were
underrepresented and significantly
discriminated against in the law
enforcement profession.
Many believed that the crime fighting
image often characterized in policing
did not side with social perceptions of
acceptable female behavior.
Integrating law enforcement with
women was a difficult task. Female
, officers at the start of the twentieth
century were to assist male officers
only.
Such duties were deemed unmasculine
or not true policework.
The first women to have complete
police powers was Lola Baldwin in
Portland, Oregon in 1905 - correct answer ✔✔hired as a social worker to help protect
young women
1905 and 1915, law enforcement across the country begin to
mimic Portland's example of hiring women police - correct answer ✔✔By 1910, women in policing begin
to take shape as Alice Stebbins
Wells was hired to the Los Angeles Police Department, again as a
social worker
for juvenile
delinquents and troubled women
Alice Stebbins
Wells was appointed as a national leader for
policewomen's rights which lasted until the 1920's - correct answer ✔✔This appointment increased the
number of employed women in police social
worker positions in at least sixteen cities by 1916
In 1967, a survey of law enforcement agencies in the largest cities in
the nation concluded that there were only 1,792 women with police
powers. This somewhat reflected a positive direction since 1916
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