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The first female officer was Alice Stebbin Wells, and she joined the Los Angeles Police Department on September 12 1910. It was an uphill battle for her to get hired, but after petitioning the mayor, police board, and city councillors, she was successful.

Much of her work was dealing with female victims, and juveniles. After she was hired, more females became police officers, and it appears that many of their roles were to tend to victims of crime.

Right or wrong, it looks that it was, and may still be, believed that female officers are better communicators and have an ability to build a better report with victims of domestic violence, as well as dealing with juveniles.

Nowadays, there are many female officers working, although the percentage is still somewhat low when compared with men. It is estimated that 15-17% of police are women across the United States.

Instead of just tending to victims, female officers are seen in every capacity of police work, from patrol, to detective work, to swat, to command officers.

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