# ⚖️ Black Women In Law Enforcement 👮🏾‍♀️

Ratione Juris 📃 By Principle Of Ones Right  
[Aretha Franklin ~ RESPECT](https://odysee.com/@MusicaDelRecuerdo:6/Aretha-Franklin-Respect:a)

FOR WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH, FEATURING AT THE START FOR A COUPLE WEEKS, HONORING THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF  
TOP BLACK WOMEN OFFICERS.

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**Showcasing Below Nine Top Black Women Cops**

**NYPD Police Commissioner, Keechant Sewell**  
[https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/14/us/keechant-sewell-nyc-first-female-police-commissioner/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/14/us/keechant-sewell-nyc-first-female-police-commissioner/index.html)

**Capt Sonia Pruitt**

[https://www.blackenterprise.com/montgomerys-first-black-female-police-captain-will-teach-race-in-policing-through-new-experience/#:~:text=Retired%20Montgomery%20County%20Police%20Captain%20Sonia%20Pruitt%20made,officers%20about%20the%20history%20of%20racism%20in%20policing](https://www.blackenterprise.com/montgomerys-first-black-female-police-captain-will-teach-race-in-policing-through-new-experience/#:~:text=Retired%20Montgomery%20County%20Police%20Captain%20Sonia%20Pruitt%20made,officers%20about%20the%20history%20of%20racism%20in%20policing).

**Captain Treone Larvadain**  
[https://www.blackenterprise.com/louisiana-governor-appoints-first-black-female-police-captain-in-state-history/](https://www.blackenterprise.com/louisiana-governor-appoints-first-black-female-police-captain-in-state-history/)

**Captain Lillie Miller**  
[https://www.kcci.com/article/lillie-miller-becomes-first-black-female-captain-in-des-moines-police-department/33397640](https://www.kcci.com/article/lillie-miller-becomes-first-black-female-captain-in-des-moines-police-department/33397640)

**Captain Patricia Helliger**  
[https://www.wtnh.com/news/connecticut/new-haven/new-haven-names-first-black-female-police-captain/](https://www.wtnh.com/news/connecticut/new-haven/new-haven-names-first-black-female-police-captain/)

**Acting Police Chief, Yogananda Pittman**  
[https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/11/us/new-uscp-chief-yogananda-pittman/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/11/us/new-uscp-chief-yogananda-pittman/index.html)

**Captain Vashina Butler**  
[https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/politics/2011/06/24/oklahoma-city-promotes-first-black-female-police-captain/61154694007/](https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/politics/2011/06/24/oklahoma-city-promotes-first-black-female-police-captain/61154694007/)

**Captain Adrienne Walker**  
[https://www.wbtv.com/2021/07/28/gastonia-police-department-promotes-first-black-captain-latino-assistant-chief/#:~:text=The%20department%20announced%20its%20first%20Latina%20Assistant%20Police,to%20sergeant%20in%202013%20and%20captain%20in%202020](https://www.wbtv.com/2021/07/28/gastonia-police-department-promotes-first-black-captain-latino-assistant-chief/#:~:text=The%20department%20announced%20its%20first%20Latina%20Assistant%20Police,to%20sergeant%20in%202013%20and%20captain%20in%202020)[.](https://www.wbtv.com/2021/07/28/gastonia-police-department-promotes-first-black-captain-latino-assistant-chief/#:~:text=The%20department%20announced%20its%20first%20Latina%20Assistant%20Police,to%20sergeant%20in%202013%20and%20captain%20in%202020.)

**Captain Estelle Young**  
[https://www.wistv.com/video/2023/01/15/awareness-columbias-first-black-female-police-captain-reflects-working-with-mlk/](https://www.wistv.com/video/2023/01/15/awareness-columbias-first-black-female-police-captain-reflects-working-with-mlk/)

**Do YOU Personally Know A Black Woman In Law Enforcement?**

**Sign,**  
**Lhisa Mrklon**

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