Seeking to get more women into its ranks the LAPD joins the "30 BY 30" Initiative.
That's 30% female recruits by 2030.
LAPD Chief Michel Moore says women actually made up more than half the department's last two recruit classes.
"Currently, we are about 18.5 percent of the organization is made of women, our sworn members of the organization and we want to build that well past 20-25-30 and continue to accelerate it," Moore says.
A 1993 LA Times article says about 14% of LAPD officers then were women, up from 2% in 1981 when a consent decree forced the city to start recruiting more women.
The 30x30 Initiative says nationwide women account for only about 12% of sworn officers and just 3% of police leadership, even though research shows female officers use less force, are named in fewer complaints and lawsuits and make fewer discretionary arrests.