By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The new head of the FBI’s Cincinnati Field Office has a rare opportunity. Angela Byers, who recently became the new agent in charge of the office, joined the bureau in 1986, just 14 years after the bureau began to allow women to become agents. When J. Edgar Hoover was the director,…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A recruitment effort to hire more women into Border Patrol is paying off as CBP announced recently that it received applications from 5,500 female applicants, Federal News Radio 1500 AM. The agency’s ranks of 21,000 agents only include about 5% women. CBP wants more female agents, partly because more women are…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A job posting for new Border Patrol agents didn’t mince words: “Male applicants won’t be considered.” Customs and Border Protection is trying to correct a significant gender imbalance in the agency by recruiting only women, Fronteras reports. “Customs and Border Protection has a critical need for female Border Patrol Agents for…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com As the FBI seeks to hire hundreds of new special agents, they will be looking for women to join the agency. About 20% of the bureau’s special agents are women, according to Fox 29. “I worked the riots, Rodney King. I worked every, anything imaginable,” said Special Agent Tanya Coleman. “I was…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com While the Justice Department is more integrated than ever, it still lags behind when it comes to women and people of color, Attorney General Eric Holder said in a speech aimed at young people. “Consider careers here at at the United States Department of Justice,” Holder said during the speech, speaking to…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Arthur Lewis, the first African American acting deputy administrator of the DEA, rose to prominence after starting his career on the hardscrabble streets of Harlam as an undercover agent. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that Lewis is credited with breaking down racial barriers and winning a legal battle in the 1970s to improve…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Jodi Butts, a law enforcement officer since 1998, said the challenges facing women in the field are numerous. Now a military police officer in the U.S. Army, Butts said women must work harder to be accepted. As law enforcement officers we face a multitude of challenges every day. Whether it’s dealing with…
