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Contents:
- GAY AND LBIAN COPS: DIVERSY AND EFFECTIVE POLICG
- ASSIATN OF OPENLY GAY AND LBIAN POLICE OFFICERS INTO THE LAW ENFORCEMENT CULTURE
- LESBIAN AND GAY POLICE ASSOCIATION – GAY OFFICERS ACTION LEAGUE
- OFFICER IENDLY AND THE TOUGH P:GAYS AND LBIANS NAVIGATE HOMOPHOBIA AND POLICG
- LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR LIAISON UN (LGBTLU)
GAY AND LBIAN COPS: DIVERSY AND EFFECTIVE POLICG
This book nonts an area of police anizatn which has received srce empiril rearch—the experienc of gay and lbian officers. Colv’s study is a * gay and lesbian police officer *
Reports n be found across the Uned Stat of police allegedly g excsive force agast lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer people. The multiday prott — wily nsired a pivotal turng pot the morn gay rights movement — was triggered by a police raid on the popular Stonewall Inn gay bar.
History, police officers were bound to enforce explicly anti-gay laws — om lol measur outlawg men om “impersonatg a female” to the wispread crimalizatn of same-sex sexual activy. Texas that gay sex was crimalized throughout the untry.
She poted to a study published by the Williams Instute May that found lbian, gay, bisexual and queer people are six tim more likely than the general public to be stopped by police (data about transgenr dividuals were not available the datasets analyzed). The bans have been divisive, even wh the LGBTQ muny — and particularly among openly gay police officers. Prr to the start of this trag, negative attus about the LGBTQ muny were reportedly pervasive wh the partment: In 1996, durg a retrag of veteran officers, a word associatn exercise asked for rpons to the word “gays.
ASSIATN OF OPENLY GAY AND LBIAN POLICE OFFICERS INTO THE LAW ENFORCEMENT CULTURE
* gay and lesbian police officer *
Gtavo Alvarez, a gay rint of Palo Alto, California, settled his lawsu agast s police partment after accg of vlatg his civil rights, rultg a settlement that clud a $572, 500 payout and a one-off two hours of mandatory LGBTQ-awarens trag for all police officers the partment. “There was no secret that he was gay, and the officers fely ed that as a way to mean him their prr ntacts wh him and also durg this ntact.
In New York Cy — where LGBTQ trag is provid by the Gay Officers Actn League (GOAL) for both new recs and veteran officers — Cummgs wants the police missner to be a civilian and lgs om the Civilian Complat Review Board, the NYPD’s oversight agency, be bdg. “Across the board systemic racism and homophobia is play wh policg, so go beyond trag and budget.
LESBIAN AND GAY POLICE ASSOCIATION – GAY OFFICERS ACTION LEAGUE
Dpe attempts to expand social diversy, policg is still domated by a whe, mascule, heterosexual ethos. As a nsequence, employment of lbians and gay men as police officers may be pecially threateng to members of this occupatn. Wh the ntext of potential hostily and homop … * gay and lesbian police officer *
An troductory chapter clus a se study of how two lbian police officers assisted the vtigatn of the murr of a gay, hearg-impaired llege stunt. Chapter 2 provis an overview of the relevant lerature, cludg background rmatn on discrimatn agast gay and lbian dividuals public employment, the ways which sexual mori manage disclosure the workplace, the recent history of lbian and gay people policg, and the velopment of shared perceptns by gay and lbian officers about their work environment. This chapter also discs how anizatnal effectivens n be promised when police agenci rist diversifitn that clus the hirg of gay and lbian officers.
This policg philosophy has led law enforcement agenci to face diversy the muni they serve, which has led to regnn of the importance of recg gay and lbian people to police service. Chapter 4 nsirs the experienc and shared perceptns of lbian and gay officers the Uned Stat and the Uned Kgdom, followed by a chapter that discs the ways which lbian and gay officers have brought a unique dimensn to law enforcement.
OFFICER IENDLY AND THE TOUGH P:GAYS AND LBIANS NAVIGATE HOMOPHOBIA AND POLICG
Chapter 6 highlights two se studi - one the Uned Stat and one the Uned Kgdom - which show the distctive and specialized ntributns of gay and lbian officers to policg.
LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR LIAISON UN (LGBTLU)
The two remag chapters foc on improvements recg and retag lbian and gay officers; and bt practic are remend based on rearch nducted for this book. They routely flung homophobic slurs and once rved his name off an award says the dangero workplace environment began years ago, when he was attendg highway patrol amy and a fellow t held a gun to his head. “I know you are gay, " the t said, acrdg to Brome.
"Tell me you are gay and I will pull the trigger. Supervisors allowed the hostile treatment to ntue, Brome surmised, bee he was a gay man.