The Role Of Women In Policing

Do you believe that women can achieve the job of policing as well as men do? Many people say women can’t perform the same job as men because of their physical appearance and their body differences. However, there has been studies conducted proving that women are less likely to use excessive force and be involved in police brutality; they are even less likely to use firearms. In my opinion, I believe that women have the same ability to perform the task men do in policing. The first women that was introduced to policing was know as “police woman”. Her name was Alice Stebbin Wells. She joined the Los Angeles Police Department in 1910. She was often known as the mother with badges, due to the work she had to accomplish. She mostly handled cases involving women, juveniles, and children. Other duties involved, women patrolling dance halls to keep tango dancers a certain distance away from each other. These

This can consist of sexual harassment, lack of role models, and even trying to balance their family. Most of the stressors women have to deal in policing just simply have to be faced and battle through them. Starting of with sexual harassment. Just like other jobs in society sometimes female will have to face with male harassing females; but if the female feels disrespected or wants it to stop, they just report it. The role model part in policing can be interrupted due to the fact of sexual harassment. If the officers training the female don 't take her seriously, then the female can feel the lack of role model that is being given to her. This is what makes female officers have a poor peer acceptance in a police organization. Lastly, many women feel that when they are in policing, balancing their family becomes a challenge. This is due the fact that women report that they have to work twice as hard to prove themselves, compared to male officers who are automatically