NEW: Black women are leading the charge to end police violence against Black Americans. Now, they’re being asked to save police departments. trib.al/1m1Zed1
After navigating their own instances of police brutality or racism, several embattled police departments around the country — including Louisville, Philadelphia, and Memphis — have selected Black women to lead them. trib.al/1m1Zed1
“We have compassion, we have empathy, we have some insight that I think can absolutely lend to the way policing should be geared,” said Elaine Bryant, who is Columbus, Ohio’s first Black woman Chief of Police. trib.al/1m1Zed1
Of the five women leading a police department among the nation’s 30 most populous cities, four of them are Black. trib.al/1m1Zed1
“As Black women and as Black mothers, we’re uniquely and acutely sensitive to the issues of a community as it relates to everything that we see going on, right now across the nation,” Cheryl Dorsey, a retired, 20-year veteran of the LAPD tells VICE News. trib.al/1m1Zed1
Every year, Black women have gained more power in policing, according to Dr. David Thomas, a retired detective and justice studies professor at Florida Gulf Coast University. trib.al/1m1Zed1
“Black women bring a very particular skill set that should be very beneficial to any organization, because there's no doubt that they're not looking at policing through the same lens of those who came before.” trib.al/1m1Zed1
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