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 subject of a new book titled: Busting The Brass Ceiling: How a heroic female cop changed the face of policing. Linden Gross co-authored the book with Blake who passed away and is part of a panel on women in policing being held Saturday, May 15. It would have been Blake s 100th birthday.