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Copy Link and Open in new Tab Visit Here : https://reader.ebookexprees.com/crimson/0999858483 ⚡b⚡FANCHON BLAKE DREAMED OF BECOMING A TOP COP. ❤b⚡She knew she was going places. She had already made a mark in the Army. Why not try a career in law enforcement? In 1948, she joined the LAPD, sure her efforts and talent would be rewarded. Instead, despite long hours and high achievement ratings, she was not allowed to promote. Due to increasingly anti-female sentiment, it would take her nineteen years to finally make sergeant, at which point LAPD policy barred her from rising any further simply because she wasn’t a man. Worse, the police chief came up with a plan to eliminate women from the department altogether. Fanchon tried to challenge the increasingly discriminatory agenda from within. Then she went to the press. When those efforts failed to effect change, she realized there was one last way to try and prevent the LAPD from tacitly becoming an all-white boy’s club. Someone would need to take them to court, and that someone might as well be her. So, she filed a legal complaint, thereby initiating one of the country’s landmark discrimination cases with little to no help from anyone. The historic class action lawsuit would take seven years and wind up changing the face of policing around the country. In the meantime, however, Fanchon’s bet
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⚡b⚡FANCHON BLAKE DREAMED OF BECOMING A TOP COP. ❤b⚡She knew she was going places. She had already made a mark in the Army. Why not try a career in law enforcement? In 1948, she joined the LAPD, sure her efforts and talent would be rewarded. Instead, despite long hours and high achievement ratings, she was not allowed to promote. Due to increasingly anti-female sentiment, it would take her nineteen years to finally make sergeant, at which point LAPD policy barred her from rising any further simply because she wasn’t a man. Worse, the police chief came up with a plan to eliminate women from the department altogether. Fanchon tried to challenge the increasingly discriminatory agenda from within. Then she went to the press. When those efforts failed to effect change, she realized there was one last way to try and prevent the LAPD from tacitly becoming an all-white boy’s club. Someone would need to take them to court, and that someone might as well be her. So, she filed a legal complaint, thereby initiating one of the country’s landmark discrimination cases with little to no help from anyone. The historic class action lawsuit would take seven years and wind up changing the face of policing around the country. In the meantime, however, Fanchon’s bet
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