The Mother Cop Dilemma
An estimated 12% of police officers in the United States are women, only about 3% of law enforcement executive leadership positions are held by women, and there is no data for the percentage of mother cops.
The mother cop club is incredibly small and those women who make it to the executive rank while also balancing the full-time role of parent is even smaller.
MEET JULIA
Julia has been a sworn police officer for 16 years and currently serves as the Operations Bureau Lieutenant for the Seal Beach Police Department. She has held many titles throughout her law enforcement career, the most common being “the first” and “the only”. Julia was the second female sergeant, the first female lieutenant, and the only pregnant female officer in the more than 100-year history of her police department.