LAPD Mourns Loss of First Female Hispanic Officer Who "Opened the Door for Many Women"

[The Straight Story]

The Los Angeles Police Department was mourning the loss of its first female Hispanic officer to graduate from the academy.

Josephine Serrano Collier, who served with the department for 16 years, died at the age of 91 late last month.

“The path for my success and other women of the LAPD is paved with the courage of Josephine Serrano (Collier) and others like her,” said Sandy Jo MacArthur, assistant chief with the LAPD office of administrative services.

Collier was born on March 14,1922 in Arizona. After misfortune and revolution in Mexico, her family brought her to California where they settled into the Lincoln Heights area.

http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/LAPD-First-female-hispanic-latin-recruit-policewoman-graduate-passed-died-remember-250831251.html

[Cha]

1. Oh wow.. RIP Josephine Serrano Collier~

thanks TSS