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The NIJ Research Assistantship Program (RAP) offers highly qualified doctoral students the opportunity to bring their expertise to NIJ to work across offices and program areas to obtain a practical and applied research experience. We welcome students from all academic disciplines to apply and connect their research to the criminal justice field.

NIJ provides funds to participating universities to pay salaries and other costs associated with research assistants who work on NIJ research activities.

Students have until January 25, 2019 to work with their schools to apply.

President Sanz attended the Research Summit on Women in Policing, December 3, 2018, National Institute of Justice
Washington, DC. Director Muhlhausen's remarks at this link: https://nij.gov/about/director/Pages/muhlhausen-research-summit-on-women-in-policing.aspx

See President Sanz in the row next to the last, about middle in the photo linked here:
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• NPR, As D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier Steps Down, A Look At Women's Role in Policing, Sept 17, 2016
  ..https://www.npr.org/player/embed/494360166/494360167
  Web URL: http://www.npr.org/2016/09/17/494360166/as-d-c-police-chief-cathy-lanier-steps-down-a-look-at-womens-role-in-policing

The ERA not yet ratified. 46 years later

https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/19/us/virginia-equal-rights-amendment-trnd

Complements of COPS, U.S. Department of Justice.

Vera Bumpers, positive influence.  In her own words. Audio at: https://cops.usdoj.gov/html/podcasts/the_beat/11-2018/TheBeat_VeraBumpers_112018.mp3

It is estimated that approximately 13 percent of sworn law enforcement officers in the United States are women. However, when many executive-level female officers took the oath decades ago, they were joining departments that were not accustomed to having women in their ranks.

Chief Vera Bumpers was appointed as the first woman police chief at the METRO Police Department, one of the largest transit law enforcement agencies in Texas. She also serves as the President of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE).

Oakland Police Will Stop Asking Recruits if They Were Sexually Assaulted

Article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/22/us/libby-schaaf-police-sexual-assault.html

Today, October 11, 2018, is the grand opening of the National Law Enforcement Museum. WIFLE President Cathern Sanz was one of the invited participants. The public opening will be October 13. Read more about the Museum at https://lawenforcementmuseum.org/.