Women in Policing
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From the time the first police force was established in the early nineteenth century, police work has been dominated by males and closely identified with masculinity. Nonetheless, policewomen are not a recent phenomenon. Women have been involved in policing for more than fifty years. However, the initial idea to assign police work exclusively to males was a natural extension of the existing belief in the appropriate division of labor in society. Historically, men have been responsible for physical labor and the physical protection of the family and community. Generally, women and children were regarded as weak and incapable of protecting themselves. Policewomen have had to fight a hard, uphill battle for inclusion in the police force and, beyond that, respect for the attributes they bring to the force. It is a battle they continue to fight today. This paper explores the history of women in policing, with particular emphasis on women police officers in the Miami Police Department. The modern police were initiated in England and then the United States in the first half of the nineteenth century. The 1829 act establishing the London police created the first police force in the world organized to prevent crime by providing constant patrol. In order to gain the citizen respect and cooperation necessary for it success, the police force was organized on a military model with strict discipline and limited o
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ad further increased their presence with approximately 11,200 officers representing 3.8 percent of the sworn officers in municipal departments. Thus, between 1960 and 1980 the number of municipal women police officers had more than doubled.
Women Officers in the Miami Police Department
The Miami Police Department hired its first policewoman in 1950 to work with young people. While the entrance requirements for male and female officers differed at that time, in 1965, the Miami Police Department equalized the educational requirements for female officers with those of male officers. Previously, women had to have a college degree, whereas males only had to have a high school diploma. Despite this move, when the chief of the Miami Police Department, Bernard Garmire, proposed in 1967 to assign women to uniform patrol, half of the 14 women officers opposed the plan and questioned its legality. Garmire cited civil service rules to support his view that female officers were not limited to plainclothes assignments. His position was upheld and by 1972 thirty-five of the thirty-seven female officers were assigned to work identical with that of male officers.
Chief Garmire believed that policewomen should be given the same r
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