Anita Davis Reflects on Time with YPD
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — Anita Davis said during her 36 years in the Youngstown Police Department, she encountered prejudice based on both her race and gender.
“It was interesting because the White female officers, they didn’t work the East Side or the North Side because it was too rough,” Davis says.
But she and the other two female officers who were Black, got those assignments. That created resentments among the Black women who were assigned there as well as the White women who were not – both because of the accompanying presumptions.
The assumption was that Black women were better able to look out for themselves, Davis says.
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