Just one of the many things you trip over on the internet.
She was one of ten women who joined Chicago PD on August 5th of 1913. Alice Clement: The Detective Wore Pearls
To call Alice Clement “one of” anything is like calling the Unsinkable Molly Brown a survivor of a boating accident. “She may not have been the first policewoman in the country,” says Dennis Bingham, a historian with the Chicago Police—that honor went to Alice Stebbins Wells of Los Angeles. “But she was without a doubt the most prominent. She carried a gun; she had the power of arrest,” and she used it. Not to mention “the furs, the heels, and the jujitsu,” he says. “She was a remarkable woman.”
She was a bit of a celebrity in her day, even appearing in a movie, that was about her of course.
The article isn't long, and is pretty good. Hat tip goes to Rejected Princesses (Well-behaved women seldom make history).
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