Let's Give Women Soldiers A Chance
February, 1993
The controversy over whether or not women in the military should be sent into battle remind me of arguments waged 20 years ago within the Los Angeles Police Department. The thinking then was that women did have a place in police work but not in the rough-and-tumble streets of Los Angeles.When I entered the Police Academy in 1949, there was, in addition to 80 male recruits, a group of 15 women. They carried guns with two-inch barrels in their purses, and when a few opted for guns with four-inch b...
