“During her four years as a sergeant, she worked in patrol for a minute and then transferred to Internal Affairs,” writes one anonymous blogger who chronicles the inner workings of Philly’s police department. “She then became lieutenant after another minute in patrol.”
…she has an answer… ‘Does the department embrace diversity, equity and inclusion?‘
Mayor Jim Kenney, who is reviled by the Fraternal Order of Police,…
[Kenney] remains unchanged in his position that an outsider, and particularly a Black woman, was needed to shake up the insularity, misogyny and other ills that had found a resting place in the police department’s culture.
Philadelphia sets all-time murder record — RT World News
More killings in 2021 than any other time in city’s recorded history. The city of Philadelphia has set a record in 2021 with 559 murders committed, the most in its history since records began.
Philly’s surge in carjackings continues into 2022 – WHYY
Well… she does have that ‘sista’-girl glam thing going on…’
Over the next 18 years in Oakland, Outlaw would steadily work her way from patrol officer to chief deputy in charge of bureau services… Eventually, this career trajectory would become fodder for her detractors. “During her four years as a sergeant, she worked in patrol for a minute and then transferred to Internal Affairs,” writes one anonymous blogger who chronicles the inner workings of Philly’s police department. “She then became lieutenant after another minute in patrol.”
In the span of a few months, she went from being the subject of adoring think-pieces about her hairstyle and fingernails to having major media outlets call for her resignation.
The bad press has frustrated Outlaw…
As a girl, she inherited a disdain for the Oakland police department that ran deep in Black and Latino communities.
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