Her faith in God and her commitment to her job in law enforcement for 31 years outweighed any personal turmoil over the duality of being Black and in uniform. At least one Black law enforcement officer, Andre Bottoms of the Louisville Metro Police Department, retired from his post, writing on his Facebook page about the unique difficulty of being both a Black man and a police officer. ADPolice departments, historically almost entirely White and male, employed only a sliver of Black officers until the 1950s. The 1967 President’s Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice found that as late as 1961, many departments hampered Black officers’ ability to make arrests. Black officers themselves felt they were upholding an unjust system.

Source: Washington Post October 09, 2020 12:00 UTC