Women In Law Enforcement

Women in Law enforcement To be a law enforcement officer, a person must be mentally and physically tough. Officers have to have many virtues like being patient, compassionate, caring, strict, and fearless. Being an officer means a person is fully dedicated to the job and what it stands for, protecting the people. Law enforcement has been around since the beginning of time. Its purpose is to enforce laws and to protect the people from crime in this world. In the different societies there are different rules and different styles of authority. For the most part law enforcement has been a male dominated career. For many centuries society viewed women as being weak, and their role was to stay at home, do house work, and raise the children. Being a woman in the work force was rare and absurd until society started changing and women had more to offer the world than men once thought. Even though it is the 21st century, women have been and still are deprived of equality within the a enforcement career, but through battling sexism, unfair policies and regulations, and ridicule from society, women’s numbers in law enforcement have been improving slowly since the early 20th century. …show more content…
Out of this number there are only around 100,000 of these officers are female (Horne). That is around 1/8th of the United States’ law enforcement officers. Women hold 6.5% of top command positions, 9.2% of supervisory positions, and 14.6% of line operation positions. Women of color hold 2.2% of top command positions, 3.5% of supervisory, and 6.3% of line operations (Harrington). These numbers are surprisingly small considering the amount of time that has passed since the early 1900s when the first woman was hired into this line of