Gender Diversification In Law Enforcement

One of the unexpected revelations I learned from the international panelists pertained to the number of woman law enforcement officers they had within their respective agencies. I don’t know exactly why, but I expected that most of the countries would not have had as many women in sworn officer positions. I certainly didn’t expect to learn that in some agencies, woman officers held as many as 30 – 50% of the law enforcement positions. In the United States, woman on average hold only 10-12% of the available sworn officer positions. Prior to the panels, I believed the United States had been making major strides and was a global leader in regards to gender diversification in law enforcement. I now realize that the profession throughout the U.S needs to increase its recruitment efforts in seeking highly qualified woman candidates for law enforcement careers if we are ever going to raise the number significantly and reach a respective level of gender diversification. …show more content…
Those countries that do have the death penalty as an option, it is infrequently utilized and similar to the U.S. the amount of time from the crime, to adjudication, to the carrying out of the sentence is a decade or longer. A study by the University of Colorado found that 88% of the nations Criminologists do not believe the death penalty is an effective deterrent to crime. 94% agreed that there is little empirical evidence to support the deterrent effect of the death penalty. Other studies have also shown that capital punishment trials and incarceration cost much more than when life in prison is the strongest sentence available and people are