A news article released in the New York Times entitled Lawsuit Depict a Police Culture of Sexual Harassment and Cover-ups highlights the sexual harassment towards female police officers and how their complaints were not addressed when brought to authorities. In an industry that is prominently lead and consisted of male employees and employers' many female officers often felt harassed and discriminated against in the Manhattan police department. Some female officers even claimed that their supervisors would often suggest sexual favors in return for better duties and placements on the job. In cases where officers reported these sexual harassment claims they where either ignored to protect the males who these claims were against, or the complaints
