Roche Arney Interview

In many communities, women never have the opportunity to see female officers as role models. For this reason, most women had not really considered policing as a career.

In recent years, recruitment and retention of police officers has been a pain point for many departments across the nation. Odd and inflexible hours, uncompetitive pay, para-militaristic organizational structures, and a negative public perception have all worked to diminish the pool of applicants interested in careers in law enforcement. Add to the mix the sexist “brotherhood” police culture, emphasis on masculinity and aggression, and the nearly non-existent opportunities for advancement for women, and over half of the eligible workforce has been discouraged from even considering a career in law enforcement. In 2013, women comprised just over 57% of the labor force, but accounted for only 13% of sworn police officers (USDOL, 2013; Crooke, 2013). Not only are women sorely underrepresented in the field of law enforcement, but those who are employed experience discrimination at the hands of their supervisors and coworkers, and as a result, the attrition rate for women is often much higher than that of their male counterparts. Departments should pledge dedication to recruiting and retaining more female officers, as research indicates that not only do females perform just as well as males in patrol positions, but they also have a unique set of advantages to offer agencies when employed in law enforcement. In order to improve the recruitment and retention of females into policing roles, departments must determine the biggest deterrents for women who are considering the pursuit

Police brutality and feminism are some of the issues the United States faces today. Police have always been an issue for people to deal with especially for the black community. Numerous African American males have encountered situations where they have been accused of crimes or beaten by the police. Feminism dates back to history where women were discriminated and degraded because of their gender. In today’s society, many of these conflicts still occur today and many prejudicial statements are made to downgrade women as a whole. In the book “Meet Me Halfway; Milwaukee Stories” written by Jennifer Morales, she addresses these two topics that people face everyday. In her book, she states the issues that African Americans face in

She is a member of ASCA and would like to be more active in the conferences and such, but she doesn 't feel that she can take that amount of time away from school. We wrapped up the interview with ‘words of wisdom ' and the main thing that she wanted me to know was how important it is for me to know who I am, what I can and cannot

She appeals to African Americans to convince them to work together because she believes that they are possible solutions that can resolve racial inequalities. She acknowledges that, “Every revolution in history has been accomplished by actions, although words are necessary … We must create shields that protect us and spears that penetrate our enemies”. The black community should protect themselves from being been brainwashed by the white man and retaliate against the oppressive system. She confronts the white man’s intolerant attitude toward the civil right movement that, “Every Time a black freedom fighter is murder or captured, the pig try to create the impression that they have quenched the movement , destroyed our forces ,and put down the black revolutionary movement.liberation army … at this time is to create good examples, to

First, one of her accomplishments was getting the Pottawatomie scholarship to Iowa western. At Iowa Western, she plans on studying to become a doctor. She is slowly making her way to achieve her most significant accomplishment, which is graduating, as we all are hopefully. Her graduating from high school is pretty big for her because she will be the first in her family to graduate and that thought makes her proud of herself. The activities she participates in are track and cross country. She enjoys track the most because it has always been her try hard sport. It is something she loves doing and it’s dreadful that it is her last year of running in high school.

Officer Paxton was hesitant to take the exam at first because as she says, “I never grew up thinking I wanted to be the police.” However, she learned in the Academy that she would be able to do the job just like anyone else.

I interviewed my office’s law enforcement fellow Special Agent Alice Jessica Campbell of the DEA. She is originally from Galveston, TX. Due to her extensive background in boarder security she was attached to our office to provide insight into drug and border policy. She splits time between DC and El Paso. She stared her career in the Houston office before transferring to the El Paso division where she work mainly on Mexican drug trafficking, heroine specifically. She just began her attachment to out office in January and is assisting us with current homeland security budget and bill relating to drugs, heroin in particular, and boarder security. In Houston and El Paso she worked quite frequently with ICE, ATF, and the FBI in particular. Now that she is here in D.C. she spend a great deal of time with the other Law Enforcement Liaisons and congressional delegations. She graduated from Baylor University with a Criminal Justice degree. Throughout her schooling she knew that she wanted to join a federal law enforcement agency but wasn’t sure until she got an internship with the DEA. That internship solidified the agency she really wanted to join. She was hired post 9/11 so the agencies relationship with homeland security was already in full swing. But she cited 9/11 as a major factor in her decision to follow a federal law enforcement track instead of her original plan to become a lawyer. Her job relates very much with Homeland Security as Mexican drug cartel have been found to

Qualitative research methods are used to examine the perceptions of women police regarding their career opportunities and trajectories, and their experiences with regard to the culture, practices, and policies of policing. Purposive sampling was used to identify and recruit a representative number of policewomen as study participants. Subjects completed surveys and participated in in-depth interviews. Data was analyzed through the use of constant comparative procedures, with member checks and interrater reliability scores obtained to ensure trustworthiness of the data.

Police brutality is a major issue in today’s society. Many African Americans tend to avoid the police for that very reason. A campaign was started in 2012 against police brutality and the unfair treating of African Americans entitled, Black Lives Matter. This movement was met with controversy as well as support from the American people. This movement has followed several controversial police brutality cases in the United States including, Eric Garner, Michael Brown, and Sandra Bland. All African American and all killed in the presence of a police officer, with no convictions. These three cases have been some of the biggest cases in the Black Lives Matter campaign. This campaign is determined to make sure that Black lives are treated just as equally as white live and Hispanic lives, because black lives matter

A lot of cases that has to do with police brutality go unheard and forgotten about. Tanisha Anderson, Rekia Boyd, Miriam Carey, Michelle Cusseaux, and Shelly Frey. Kayla Moore.These names are etched into tombstones that stand over the graves of black women killed by police and were or unsolved so echoed at a vigil in New York City on Wednesday, where dozens gathered to show that these women should not be forgotten. For the first time, families of all these women came together to reflect on the lives of their lost loved ones and publicly share memories of their slain relatives.

Overall, the premises of her argument effectively demonstrate that people of color are not directly responsible for their own criminal image which is backed by

I really enjoyed today's class because we talked about women in policing. As a woman, it was interesting to hear about the different stereotypes that plague the law enforcement when it comes to gender roles. I learned that Alice Stebbins Wells was the first American-born female police officer in the United States, hired in 1910 in Los Angeles. I was really surprised to find out that only 11% of police are women because my guess was it was 40%. It is significantly lower than I had first thought and I think it is because police work is mostly a male dominated sector.

The suspicion and oppression that Assata and the rest of her Black community were subjected to proved to be obstacles in the lives of many individuals but, even so, such obstacles did not halt their fight for freedom. To those not affected, it may appear as though today the United States has evolved and progressed to be free from these forms of prejudice and racism. However, the absence of explicit segregation and public lynching should not disguise the fact that the economic gap between Whites and Blacks has nearly tripled in the last twenty five years, in the past decade there have been multiple accounts of police and vigilante brutality towards people of color, and that Assata Shakur is the first woman on the United States’s Most Wanted Terrorist list for a crime that she was unjustly prosecuted for and is forced to live out her life as a political refugee in Cuba. Today, corporations such as the Black Lives Matter movement are working relentlessly to put an end to said police brutality and to protect the rights of other discriminated groups, but similar to fifty years ago, a change will not be made overnight. However, the general population of the United States is becoming increasingly more outspoken and intolerant towards acts of unjust in the country and for the first time since the March on Washington in 1963, is beginning to drastically unify to make a change. And, every step that our country takes together in the fight for freedom, the liberation for all of our country’s people grows ever

During this interview she really connected with us trying to give us information but still keeping us interested. Madalyn is a young college student with long blonde hair and very young looking but she's older in intelligence. She also talks in a sarcastic way, joking around with us. For example, we asked her about accomplishes in colleges and she said, "I got season football tickets to LSU. So yeah I'm pretty proud of those haha." She would also be serious when asking her some questions like high school and advice to help us out. Madalyn is going to college and wants to be a doctor some day she says, "I have always wanted to do this since I was little, because I loved helping people."