WOMEN IN POLICING - REFLECTIONS OF A CHANGING COMMUNITY, PART 1

• NCJ Number: 16156
• Journal: POLICE LAW QUARTERLY Volume: 4 Issue: 1 Dated: (OCTOBER 1974) Pages: 23-33
• Author(s): J Kruckenberg
• Date Published: 1974
• Length: 11 pages
• Corporate Author: Illinois Institute of Technology
• Publication Format: Article
• Publication Type: Statistics
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

A SURVEY OF 110 POLICE AGENCIES TO DETERMINE HOW INDIVIDUAL AGENCIES ARE USING WOMEN IN THEIR DEPARTMENTS.

Abstract

EIGHTY-SEVEN DEPARTMENTS WITH SWORN FEMALE POLICE OFFICERS AND 23 WITHOUT WERE SURVEYED, SIXTY-TWO COMPLETED QUESTIONNAIRES (56 PER CENT) WERE RETURNED. THOSE POLICE DEPARTMENTS HAVING SWORN FEMALE OFFICERS REPORTED THAT AN AVERAGE OF FOUR PERCENT OF THEIR TOTAL SWORN PERSONNEL WAS FEMALE - DOUBLE THE NATIONAL AVERAGE OF TWO. WOMEN OFFICERS WERE ASSIGNED MOST OFTEN TO WORK WITH WOMEN AND JUVENILES, VICE AND DETECTIVE WORK, AND PATROL. THIRTY-SEVEN PERCENT WERE ASSIGNED TO ALL OF THE SAME DUTIES AS MEN. EIGHTY-THREE PERCENT OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENTS INDICATED THAT SWORN FEMALE OFFICERS RECEIVED THE SAME TRAINING AS MEN. DEPARTMENTS WITH NO SWORN FEMALE OFFICERS MOST OFTEN LISTED NO QUALIFIED APPLICANTS, A SMALL DEPARTMENT, OR UNSUCCESSFUL EXPERIENCE WITH FEMALE OFFICERS AS THE REASONS.