by Gregg Reese
December 8, 2022
It’s 1980 and timing is everything. Cheryl Dorsey’s daily grind of typing reports for on-going investigations in the secretarial pool at the Department of Justice was interrupted by an offer, in which she would take part in an undercover narcotics “sting operation” as a decoy.
Her interest aroused, coupled with the final passage of the Frachon Blake Consent Decree initiated in 1973, the single mother decided to shift careers and apply for a more lucrative job with the Los Angeles Police Department.
The move was motivated by the courts to recruit minorities and women for a more equitable law enforcement entity. Transitioning through the police academy into a rookie officer on the streets of her native South Central LA, she begin her journey from (comparatively) naive novice to seasoned veteran with insight into the workings of the LAPD, LA County and the city as a whole.
Reality Check
“I asserted that I was being treated poorly because 1) I was Black, and 2) I was a woman,” she said.
—Cheryl Dorsey
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