Hoarding is Not Collection Development
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Crime Fighting Ladies
Women in Policing
Fighting Crime Around the World
Fooner
1976
As of this writing, this book is still on the shelf of a small public library. As anyone who has been on this blog for more than a few posts knows, career materials are my hot button weeding issue. For the love of all things library, run a shelf list and get those ancient career materials out of a modern collection.
Featured ideas in this book:
- Before too long, women will be a significant part of local police.
- The uniforms are cute. (There are a couple of pages on police fashion.)
- Women are great at under cover roles as nurses or prostitutes.
Remember, this book is older than Cagney and Lacey. (And a contemporary of Charlie’s Angels and Police Woman.) Although my encounters with police are limited to a few speeding tickets and calling police in for some wacky patron incidents, women are just as likely to show up and no one thinks twice.
Run, don’t walk, and weed those youth career books before I have a stroke.
Mary
More Police Posts:
Tersely written? How is that a positive description?
Anna K: That cracked me up too. I bet people line up to read tersely written narratives.
Is it just me, or does the lady in administration look like Jackie Tyler, Rose Tyler’s mum from Doctor Who (minus the over-the-top makeup, of course)?
Well. I’d rather read tersely written trash then the long winded stuff. It least it’s over sooner.
She may have a badge, but I wouldn’t mistake her for Katherine Willows or Olivia Benson. No swabbing for DNA, no AFIS, no hard drive recovery, no videoconferencing, no sex offender registry? Forensics is now a super-hot, super-sexy career field! Update PLEASE!
Jenn: She *really* does and it’s amusing me so much now.