As a life trajectory it takes some beating – even in the US, that land of eternal reinvention. At the age of 14 Cathy Lanier dropped out of high school. She was pregnant at 14, an unmarried mother at 15. Then at 23 she joined the police, starting as a beat patrolwoman. By the time she was 39, she had a couple of Masters degrees. More to the point, she was appointed chief of police of America’s capital, a white woman in charge of maintaining law and order in a city where blacks account for half the population.
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