Throughout policing history the role of women and minorities has been a long and hard fought battle. Discrimination had been very prevalent fifty or sixty years ago when women were hired to become matrons doing office work or helping with women and children of sexual abuse. Minorities were forbidden to become police officer until the Nixon Administration era‚ when the federal government encouraged employers to employ women and minorities and keep track of their progress in what is known today as
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Women and Minorities in Law Enforcement Response Student: Course: Fundamentals of Policing The role of women and minority throughout policing history: Throughout policing history women and minorities have played roles in the equality opportunities in the workplace legislation. During the Nixon Administration the federal government began to push employers on obtaining a good faith effort to employ women and minorities and track to their progress. In 1969
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Women and Minorities in Law Enforcement Response Throughout policing history women and minorities have gone through so many changes as they tried to become law enforcers. In the beginning‚ when women and minorities were allowed to become police officers they would be hired but given lighter duties or assigned to lower crime areas. They weren’t given much opportunity to go out and experience first hand how everything was on the streets since the majority of law enforcers back then were males. They
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Police And Law Enforcement Response Checklist 1 Police and Law Enforcement Response Checkpoint Amanda Robertson CJS/200 8/3/2013
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Checkpoint: Police and Law Enforcement Response A police officers role in society is to effectively enforce laws‚ arrest offenders when a crime has been committed‚ prevent crime to their best ability‚ preserve the peace whenever possible‚ and provide services to community citizens in their time of need. Over the past 25-30 years‚ police departments have proactively been enforcing the Community Policing Theory‚ developed by Professor Herman Goldstein‚ on their staff and officers. Community policing
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are responsible for enforcing the law‚ investigating crimes‚ apprehending offenders‚ reducing and preventing crime‚ maintaining public order‚ ensuring community safety‚ providing emergency and related community services‚ and protecting the fundamental rights and freedoms of individuals. (Schmalleger‚ pg. 17) If police were to be lessened or have a limit of power; communities would implode on themselves. Crime is high in today’s society with having law enforcement; now if we were to take away that
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Women and Minorities in Law Enforcement Working to end discrimination in this country has been a long and hard fought battle. In the early 1950’s federal laws began to offer some help to those who had been persecuted against for so many years. During the Nixon Administration the federal government began to push employers to make a "good faith effort" to employ women and minorities and to track their progress. These were known as affirmative action programs. Some minorities contend that discrimination
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Throughout the United States‚ women were minorities in Law Enforcement. Women have been in policing for over 150 years and‚ despite strong resistance by those within the male-dominated field and public opinion‚ have challenged traditional and stereotypical perceptions of “authentic” police officers; women have used their talents and abilities in policing to prove their capacity as viable police officers. For example‚ Alice Stebbin Wells was the first women to be called a policewomen in the Los Angeles
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Throughout history there has always been an enormous obstacle for women to overcome in the workplace. Occupational Segregation has continuously acted as a force that impedes on the daily lives of female workers across the world. It not only eliminates several chances for women to capitalize on opportunistic events‚ but has also denied them of the basic civil rights they are entitled to. Jobs ranging from the military‚ sports‚ and even the corporate world have long been dominated by an aura of masculine
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Women in Law Enforcement Essay There are many stereotypes that women in law enforcement field had to face throughout time. Women troubled with being taken serious as a crime fighter‚ or if a women would ever be allowed to become a police officer‚ was a question because women are usually viewed from others as too small‚ weak and gentle to ever be taken serious from the public. In this research paper I will explain the background on women in the law enforcement and how women have the same intelligence
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