The Right to Serve: address discrimination, physical and verbal abuse of women and veterans in law enforcement org.

In law enforcement there is a term called The Peter Police Principle, The Peter Police Principle is a theory, which is commonly used, where "officers tend to bring other officers into their group, who share their outlooks on police work and shun those who are not predisposed to those viewpoints. In other words, an officer prone to brutality who is promoted to supervisor will bring other officers prone to brutality under their wing and promote them while shunning officers who go by the book (David Packman, 2009, The CATO Institute, National Police Misconduct Reporting Project)". It is police practices like these, which have made female officers and military veterans the target of discrimination, physical and sexual attacks in the police department, as well as psychological misclassificat