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Watchdog: A former Richardson police officer steps forward in a federal lawsuit against the department.
She heard, she recalled, that then Chief Kenneth Yarbrough had said, “I think she’s too little and can’t do the job.” I asked how little she was back then: 5-foot-2 and 108 pounds, she remembered. Yarbrough told me, “She was a tough little girl. I don’t remember anybody thinking that she wasn’t capable of doing the job.”“These guys band together,” she recalled of the culture and traditions she stepped into. “And if you’re not part of the boys club, they’re going to go after you, and they do.”that the secretary/treasurer of the non-profit was stealing money, Bartek agreed to become president to clean up the mess. Eventually, the swindler pleaded guilty. More than $10,000 had gone missing.
The most serious incident came when she and another officer who has since passed away had to fight a teenager accused of beating his grandfather. The fight seemed to last for an eternity. Backup eventually arrived but it was slow coming. “I started to see the group of guys that did the petition were the same guys that were angry at the world. When you’re the only female on the shift, as I often was, they might be getting divorced or they’re angry at their wives or girlfriends, they come to work and take it out on you.She didn’t know who to trust. “I was at my wit’s end. I just cracked. I hate to admit it, but I started thinking of suicide.
He continued, “They do as good a job as any male does and maybe even better in some respects because they’re more apt to engage in de-escalation than the men are.”An officer’s best weapon is not a gun, but their mouth used to “convince, cajole and de-escalate,” he said.
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