vide significant flexibility in the development of care arrangements for children and elderly relatives. Police departments across the United States are already making work schedule changes to accommodate the needs of women officers (Simakis, 1993, pp. 29 35). Such changes to accommodate female officers are expected to accelerate over the next two decades. All organizational and institutional distinctions between female and male police officers are expected to disappear (Simakis, 1993, pp. 29 35). Female police officers will receive similar assignments and will be expected to perform at levels comparable to male officers. Minorities in Policing
In the United States, the concentration of ethnic and racial population groups in specific locations within urban areas, the increased incidence of crime within neighborhoods of high ethnic and racial concentration, and the tendency for police forces to be composed predominantly of individuals drawn from the majority Anglo population group contribute to the developme
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