17-year-old Stephanie Lopez started advocating at school board meetings for school resource officers (SROs)—armed, district-funded trained police officers—to be replaced with adult hall monitors. By involving staff who would get to know the students instead of giving them citation, Lopez is looking for a more holistic approach to student management.
Tag: Women and Policing
Gender Parity in Policing is Part of the Fight to End Domestic Violence
Domestic violence is the most common reason people in the U.S. call the police, comprising 15 to 50 percent of 911 calls—but journalist Cari Shane posits in a recent piece that “it should be more.”
The Plain View of Police Sexism and Racism Online
The issue of police brutality and distrust is still pervasive, especially between minority groups and the police. And after taking a look into the Facebook accounts of thousands of officers, the reasons for police distrust have become even clearer.
Women Are Not Safe on Rikers Island
Women detained at Rikers are not safe. Neither are the women who visit or the women who work there.
Our Policing Problem is Also a Diversity Problem
In order to change police culture, we must improve hiring practices and recruit more women officers and more officers of color.
Institutional Sexism in Policing is Still Holding Women Back—And That Impacts Everyone
Earlier this month, the U.S. Justice Department announced a lawsuit against the State of Michigan on the grounds of systematic gender discrimination against women corrections officers. The lawsuit shows that existing efforts to stop institutional sexism in the state—and around the nation—aren’t enough.
How to Defuse Police Violence
As the crisis continues to unfold in Baltimore and in communities across the country, it becomes increasingly clear that hiring the right types of police officers is imperative to improving […]
The Nation’s Police Have a Sex-Discrimination Problem
The death of 18-year-old Michael Brown at the hands of a Ferguson, Missouri police officer last month prompted the Department of Justice to launch an investigation into Ferguson’s policing practices. (This investigation […]
Where Are the Women Police in Ferguson?
Images from Ferguson, Missouri, have filled TV and computer screens around the country since the tragic killing of Michael Brown by police officer Darren Wilson—everywhere we’ve looked we’ve seen vulnerability […]