The NIJ Research Assistantship Program (RAP) offers highly qualified doctoral students the opportunity to bring their expertise to NIJ to work across offices and program areas to obtain a practical and applied research experience. We welcome students from all academic disciplines to apply and connect their research to the criminal justice field.

NIJ provides funds to participating universities to pay salaries and other costs associated with research assistants who work on NIJ research activities.

Students have until January 25, 2019 to work with their schools to apply.

President Sanz attended the Research Summit on Women in Policing, December 3, 2018, National Institute of Justice
Washington, DC. Director Muhlhausen's remarks at this link: https://nij.gov/about/director/Pages/muhlhausen-research-summit-on-women-in-policing.aspx

See President Sanz in the row next to the last, about middle in the photo linked here:
 CSans-group.jpg

• NPR, As D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier Steps Down, A Look At Women's Role in Policing, Sept 17, 2016
  ..https://www.npr.org/player/embed/494360166/494360167
  Web URL: http://www.npr.org/2016/09/17/494360166/as-d-c-police-chief-cathy-lanier-steps-down-a-look-at-womens-role-in-policing

The ERA not yet ratified. 46 years later

https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/19/us/virginia-equal-rights-amendment-trnd

Complements of COPS, U.S. Department of Justice.

Vera Bumpers, positive influence.  In her own words. Audio at: https://cops.usdoj.gov/html/podcasts/the_beat/11-2018/TheBeat_VeraBumpers_112018.mp3

It is estimated that approximately 13 percent of sworn law enforcement officers in the United States are women. However, when many executive-level female officers took the oath decades ago, they were joining departments that were not accustomed to having women in their ranks.

Chief Vera Bumpers was appointed as the first woman police chief at the METRO Police Department, one of the largest transit law enforcement agencies in Texas. She also serves as the President of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE).

Oakland Police Will Stop Asking Recruits if They Were Sexually Assaulted

Article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/22/us/libby-schaaf-police-sexual-assault.html

Today, October 11, 2018, is the grand opening of the National Law Enforcement Museum. WIFLE President Cathern Sanz was one of the invited participants. The public opening will be October 13. Read more about the Museum at https://lawenforcementmuseum.org/.

Article: https://www.govexec.com/management/2018/10/executives-association-wants-fill-gaps-federal-training-and-development/151832/?oref=govexec_today_nl

As of June 30, 2016, the 15,328 general-purpose law enforcement agencies in the United States employed an estimated 701,000 full-time sworn officers. General-purpose law enforcement agencies include municipal, county, and regional police departments; most sheriffs’ offices; and primary state and highway patrol agencies. They are distinct from excluded special-purpose agencies (e.g., those with jurisdiction on tribal lands; and in parks, schools, airports, subways, hospitals, housing authorities, and government buildings), sheriff’s’ offices with only jail and court duties, and federal law enforcement agencies. Only general-purpose agencies are included in this report. 

From 1997 to 2016, the number of full-time sworn offers in general-purpose law enforcement agencies increased by about 52,000 (up 8%). During the same period, the total U.S. population increased by about 56 million (up 21%).  As a result, the number of full-time sworn offers per 1,000 residents decreased, from 2.42 in 1997 to 2.17 in 2016 (down 11%). The 2016 rate of full-time sworn officers per 1,000 residents was also lower than the rates in 2000 (down 7%), 2003 (down 8%), and 2007 (down 7%). Findings are based on the Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS) surveys from the Bureau of Justice Statistics.