policewomen

San Francisco police lieutenant Lindsay Boxer, the subject of a police brutality trial after a shoot-out involving two teens, retreats to Half Moon Bay to get away from the media circus and becomes embroiled in the investigation of a series of murders that puts her in mind of an unsolved case from her rookie years.

Judy Hammer, sent to Richmond, Virginia to help clean up their police force, becomes involved, along with her deputy chief, in the most challenging case of her career.

Contains interviews with policewomen in New York City describing their private lives and professional struggles.

Rosemary Dew, only the seventh woman to be named a supervisor at FBI headquarters, shares stories from her thirteen years as an agent, discusses the obstacles she faced as a woman in the bureau, and exposes some of the problems she witnessed within the FBI that she believes are keeping it from operating effectively.

Candice DeLong, a retired field profiler for the FBI, shares stories from throughout her twenty-year career as an agent, discussing some of the cases in which she was involved, and the difficulties of being a woman in law enforcement.