Word: policewoman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...LOSE YOUR WALLET, $84; AGREE TO WED POLICEWOMAN; BATTERED CLERIC VOWS SUIT...
...tropical downpour. Cars and school buses clogged the streets. At one point, police in Manhattan narrowly averted a "grid lock," the ultimate traffic jam, in which no motor vehicle can move in any direction. An angry bicyclist bit a policeman; an upset motorist tried to run down a policewoman. It was the ninth day of the transit strike, and the élan that New Yorkers had shown in the first week of the walkout had washed away...
...Sociologist Patricia Weiser Remmington. After a year of riding five shifts a week on police patrols in Atlanta, Remmington concluded that males cope with the presence of females on the force by dealing with them as natural subordinates -and the females accept the situation. A policeman talks to a policewoman in a teasing kind of banter, as if the female cop were a tomboyish kid sister. Because women cops were not trained in the martial arts or encouraged to handle tough assignments, they often showed a lack of confidence, and sometimes deliberately drove slowly to a potentially violent call. Says...
...HAVEN, Conn.--A Yale policewoman accused of insulting and harassing a black student has been reinstated by a grievance panel, despite protests by Yale's top police administrator and by university President A. Bartlett Giamatti...