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Committed to creating a bridge between the Asian community and police, 20-year-old college student Agnes Chan, daughter of a Chinatown seamstress, became NYPD's first Asian woman officer in 1980. Rookie Officer Christine Leung was insulted by a middle-aged Caucasian woman slanderous comments about her. Trish Ormsby worked for a Japanese Wall Street firm, serving served tea to her male bosses. She quit in disgust and became a cop. Filmmaker Ermena Vinluan, intrigued by the image of Asian women in non-traditional careers, explores the challenges these women embraced and accomplished. Interviews with anti-police-abuse activists, believing that women cops tend to be less abusive add to this complex look at race, gender and power.
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