Tuesday, December 2, 2014

WLP presents: Author/Activist & LAPD Whistleblower Cheryl Dorsey


On December 15, 2014, WLP Gardena will feature author, activist and retired LAPD sergeant Cheryl Dorsey in an illuminating discussion about her career and work as an outspoken woman of color in the male-dominated culture of the LAPD.  Ms. Dorsey's acclaimed book Black and Blue: The Creation of a Manifesto chronicles her fight against racism, sexism and the Good Old Boy's club in the Los Angeles Police Department. She writes, "LAPD’s problems and internal struggles, which precipitated the creation of the Christopher Commission in 1991, are the same issues facing the department in 2013; they’re cultural and systemic. The department crafts an image of any officer who complains in such a way that makes that officer appear distasteful, and therefore anything that they say or do is rejected. However, I am an honorably retired police sergeant who's willing to expose the department's two-tiered system of discipline and the manner in which the LAPD condones acts of sexism, racism, and reverse racism."

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