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Brown is interim sheriff as Valdez pursues governorship From Staff Reports
As the mid-term election cycle rapid approaches there have been many surprises. Earlier this year news reports lauded Dallas for having its first Latina sheriff with Lupe Valdez, and first African American female district attorney and police chief, Faith Johnson and U. Renee Hall. Now Dallas has its first African American female sheriff, albeit interim, but still a Black History Moment as Chief Deputy Marian Brown is appointed to fill the vacancy brought on when Sheriff Valdez stepped down to run for Texas Governor on December 6. Dallas County Commissioners appointed Brown earlier this week and she will serve until the November election.
Sheriff Brown grew up in Dallas and attended Dallas Schools. She began her career in law enforcement in 1988 with the Duncanville Police Department. She was a pioneer, in that she was the first African-American female hired by the Duncanville Police Department. She quickly ascended in rank, promoting to the rank of sergeant in 1993. While in that rank, she served as first-line supervisor in the Patrol Division. In 1995, she was assigned to the Community Relations/Crime Prevention Division, where was tasked with creating a Community Oriented Policing Task Force. Through this unit, she formulated such programs as Citizens on Patrol and Duncanville Police Beat, a weekly information program
Interim Dallas County Sheriff Marian Brown
hosted by Brown and broadcast on local cable. Other programs managed by Brown included, Citizens Police Academy; Seniors and Law Enforcement Together (SALT);
Hand-in-Hand and Success Through Accepting Responsibility or STAR Program, (a schooldistrict-wide character education program). The wife of FOX 4-TV’s Shaun Rabb, Sheriff Brown is known throughout the law enforcement community for her role as law enforcement trainer/anchor on the Law Enforcement Television Network (LETN), an international law enforcement satellite network based in Carrollton, Texas. She worked with LETN for 10 years, while continuing her service with the Duncanville Police Department. In 1997, she was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. She continued to work in the arena of community relations, but eventually returned to the Patrol Division to serve as commander.
In 2005, she was assigned to command the Criminal Investigations Division. There, she served until 2007 when she was named to the position of Assistant Chief of Police. She served as Assistant Chief until 2014, when she retired and joined the Dallas County Sheriff ’s Department, where she was serving as Chief Deputy in charge of General Services. More about Sheriff BrownBachelors of Arts Degree -University of Texas at Arlington Master Peace Officer Certification Graduate of the International Law Enforcement Institute’s Management College Graduate of the FBI National Academy Associates Command College
Racism in the Workplace and the Whitewashing of the #MeToo Movement THE LAST WORD
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux
Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) was the first member of the Congressional Black Caucus to leave his job after the “MeToo� hashtag galvanized women to speak up about sexual misconduct, harassment and more. Too bad that impetus did not
float up to the top, where an avowed grabber of women’s genitals occupies the White House. It’s also unfortunate, that members of Congress have paid sexual assault accusers out of a taxpayer-funded slush fund have not been unmasked. We
know some of the names. Texas Congressman Blake Farenthold (R-Texas) arranged to have his former communications director paid $84,000 (a fraction of the $27,000 Conyers is said to have paid). Farenthold has not resigned, nor have Congressional Republicans called for his resignation, including Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-Wis.). Farenthold said he will pay the money back. Yeah, right. As a woman, I am cheered by the #MeToo movement, although I am also annoyed by the myopia about women of
color and sexual harassment, assault and rape. In 1944, Recy Taylor was viciously raped by seven White men, who never paid a price. Civil rights icon Rosa Parks was an NAACP investigator in this case, as chronicled by Danielle McGuire in her book, “At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance–A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power.� The first case in which the Supreme Court ruled that sexual harassment was a violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act
was brought by Michelle Vinson, an African American woman, in the case Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson (1986). The high-profile, White women who are talking about workplace sexual harassment and assault really need to acknowledge the many ways that African American women have been systematically abused, and systematically ignored (and sometimes conspired against) by their White “sisters.� Perhaps I quibble, but this overwhelming stand against sexual misconduct and beyond
(getting nude in front of your staff, forcible kissing, grabbing women by the you know what, etc.) makes me wonder when there will be a similar groundswell against racism and racial harassment in the workplace. Numerous cases of nooses being displayed in workplaces have been reported in the last decade, so many that a law journal published an article titled, “Does One Noose in the Workplace Constitute a Hostile Work Environment? If Not, How See MALVEAUX, page 2 www.texasmetronews.com