We hear about superheroes all the time and see them everyday on TV shows, movies, and comic books. They tend to hide behind a mask to conceal there real identify and they are loved by everybody with the exception of your typical mutated villain that hates them. Their defenders of the universe and can do no wrong. At least that is how they are portrayed on TV shows like Arrow, The Flash, Agents of S.H.I.L.D, and movies like The Avengers, Thor, and Captain America. As perfect as they sound there is another type of hero, a more realistic hero that like its fictiaces counter part can also be seen on TV shows, movies, etc. They appear in shows like Blue Bloods, Rookie Blue, Cops and many more but unlike superheroes
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They have had to fight against a lot of odds to be where they are now. They fought sexual harassment, hostile work environment, being thought as weak, not treated equally and with respect, and they would be ostracize if they made one single mistake. Even when things didn’t look to bright for them they still kept on moving forward and fought for their rights to be police officers. Because of the sacrifices this women made it has given more opportunities for more women to join law enforcement now. It is not exactly known when was the first time a female police officer pinned on her badge and began her duty to serve and protect. The first known police matrons were hired by New York City in 1854 to search and guard female prisoners, they also shelter and protected women and children in police custody. Unlike there male counterpart policewomen where not called police officers instead they where known as Police Matrons, they where also called jail matrons and they were civilians therefore they had no law enforcement …show more content…
Her main duties were to supervise and enforce laws applicable to juveniles and women in public recreation areas. Five years later she would found the International Association of Policewomen in 1915 and which was disbanded during the Depression of 1932. Alice Stebbins Wells would later become a pioneer in the national movement to have police deportments have women as officers. She would go down in history as the first known women to be given both the title of policewomen and arrest powers. Isabella Goodwin became the first female to become a detective in 1912. As the years went by policewomen could be found in more then 200 U.S. cities in 1918. That year Mary Sullivan became the first homicide detective. Mary E. Hamilton was the first women precinct leader and the first patrolwomen in New York City in 1921. As the leader of the women’s precinct her department focused on finding and caring for missing persons and runaways, particular young girls. 30 percent of FBI employees were women who worked as secretaries, file clerks, radio operators, finger examiners, or lab technician. They would even assisted special agents by posing as their dates on surveillance missions. Even with this huge step they weren’t allowed to be special agents themselves. Years later after the International Association of Policewomen was disbanded during the
They have had to fight against a lot of odds to be where they are now. They fought sexual harassment, hostile work environment, being thought as weak, not treated equally and with respect, and they would be ostracize if they made one single mistake. Even when things didn’t look to bright for them they still kept on moving forward and fought for their rights to be police officers. Because of the sacrifices this women made it has given more opportunities for more women to join law enforcement now. It is not exactly known when was the first time a female police officer pinned on her badge and began her duty to serve and protect. The first known police matrons were hired by New York City in 1854 to search and guard female prisoners, they also shelter and protected women and children in police custody. Unlike there male counterpart policewomen where not called police officers instead they where known as Police Matrons, they where also called jail matrons and they were civilians therefore they had no law enforcement …show more content…
Her main duties were to supervise and enforce laws applicable to juveniles and women in public recreation areas. Five years later she would found the International Association of Policewomen in 1915 and which was disbanded during the Depression of 1932. Alice Stebbins Wells would later become a pioneer in the national movement to have police deportments have women as officers. She would go down in history as the first known women to be given both the title of policewomen and arrest powers. Isabella Goodwin became the first female to become a detective in 1912. As the years went by policewomen could be found in more then 200 U.S. cities in 1918. That year Mary Sullivan became the first homicide detective. Mary E. Hamilton was the first women precinct leader and the first patrolwomen in New York City in 1921. As the leader of the women’s precinct her department focused on finding and caring for missing persons and runaways, particular young girls. 30 percent of FBI employees were women who worked as secretaries, file clerks, radio operators, finger examiners, or lab technician. They would even assisted special agents by posing as their dates on surveillance missions. Even with this huge step they weren’t allowed to be special agents themselves. Years later after the International Association of Policewomen was disbanded during the