Women in law enforcement reflect on 'Busting the Brass Ceiling'
Women in law enforcement reflect on 'Busting the Brass Ceiling' FOX 11 spoke with women in law enforcement as they reflect on "Breaking the Brass Ceiling." LOS ANGELES - Assistant Chief Alma Burke is the first Latina Assistant Police Chief at USC. She first spent 24 in the LAPD. Her success, and that of high-ranking women in law enforcement, may in part be credited to landmark legal action by a female officer who joined the LAPD in 1948. As women couldn't promote past Sergeant, Fanchon Blake took a discrimination case all the way to the United States Supreme Court. The story of Blake is the...
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