Oral history interview with Alicia C. Parker, 2015.

Biographical Note

Alicia Parker grew up in Brooklyn, New York. She joined the NYPD in 1973 and was among the first women to go on patrol as police officers. She was effected the police layoffs of 1975, but made her way back onto the force soon after. After two decades with the NYPD she retired in the early 1990s due to her distrust of the Rudy Giuliani administration. During her years on the job, she worked for the Bronx Sex Crimes Analysis Unit, the Police Academy, Personal Security for Mayor David Dinkins, and the Special Investigation Division

Scope and Contents

Alicia Parker describes her work with the New York City Police Department, and her involvement with the Guardians Association from the 1970s through the 1990s. She sheds light on challenges she faced as a woman of color, and how the Guardians Association and the Policewomen's Endowment Association played an important role in her career advancement. She also provides details on the administrations of Mayor David Dinkins, for whom she provided Personal Security, and of Rudy Giuliani. Also discussed, were the distressed relations between police and communities of color in New York City, and the impact of the Black Lives Matter movement as of 2015

Subjects

• African American police--New York (State)--New York.
• Black lives matter movement.
• Dinkins, David N.
• Giuliani, Rudolph W.
• Interviews.
• NYPD Guardians Association.
• New York (N.Y.). Police Department--History.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Parker, Alicia--Interviews.
• Policewomen--New York (State)--New York.
• Strong, Liz, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr

Access Conditions

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