Tacoma police looking to increase force to 30% women by 2030

There’s a push to get more women on the Tacoma police force.

Tacoma Police Department has signed onto a national initiative to get more women on the force, called “30 by 30.” That’s 30% of its sworn officers being women by 2030.

It likely comes as no surprise that just 48 of Tacoma’s sworn police officers are women. And even in racially-diverse Tacoma, the overwhelming majority are like Kate Tegler — they are white.

The woman working to change that is recruiting Officer Taylor Reeves, a 12-year-police veteran in her sixth year with Tacoma police.

Even though her grandfather was a police officer, Reeves didn’t consider police work until she

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