Breaking and Entering: Women Cops Talk About Life in the Ultimate Men's Club
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ISBN: 0060173114 / Publisher: HarperCollins, May 1995
Through interviews with female police personnel a journalist illuminates the experience of being a police woman through interviews that include stories of life-threatening situations, discrimination, hostility, and sexual harassment
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More than 100 women in law enforcement from all over the United States are represented here. They come from big-city, small-town, rural, and state forces and federal agencies, ranging in rank from recruit through police chief, and in experience from a newly minted Texas Ranger to a woman who joined the LAPD in 1947. These women speak openly here about what it's like to be in a job that's perilous both inside and out.From hilarious stories of how they survived grueling training and got around difficult supervisors and coworkers to inspiring stories of how they overcame discrimination and harassment and changed the face of policing, the women in Breaking and Entering reveal what it's like in the most powerful men's club around.
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