Where more women cops walk the beat
Savannah Police Department Capt. Michelle Halford recalls perfectly the moment she decided to become a police officer.
As a 20-something student at a local university, her apartment was burgled. As if the humiliation of the intrusion wasn’t enough, the police response was, at best, dismissive.
“There’s nothing worse than having someone violate your space,” says Captain Halford. “It just didn’t feel like they recognized that.”
That gut punch led to a life-changing decision: She switched her major to criminal justice, and later became one of the first women to hit the streets for the Savannah Police Department.
Captain Halford’s career rides the arc of a new reality in American policing – the emergence of policewomen as commonplace.
The U.S. policing profession has been rocked by shootings, violence, and massive civil rights protests. National political chasms – defund the police versus “refund” the police – barb debate in the
