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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