Edward Conlon. And the NYPD has opened up to women of all ages

It is a time, the late 1950s, when a lady in a police uniform was systematically mistaken for a stewardess. Edward Conlon was not nonetheless born but he crossed the route of a pioneer figure of the police declined in the female: Marie Cirile-Spagnuolo.

Appointed inspector in New York in 1957, she was entitled to a double penalty: the item of mistrust by her male colleagues mainly because she was a woman, but also due to the fact she came from the Italian group in an environment then dominated by the Irish, anxious to preserve their sq. garden.

From his time at the New York Metropolis Law enforcement Division, Edward Conlon has cherished the memory of this American law enforcement legend whose several …

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