The long, troubled history of police and transgender communities
of the policing of low-income transgender Latinas in Los Angeles County found that two-thirds who'd been stopped by police reported being called male.
In 1962, an officer named Elliott Blackstone was assigned to mediate relations between the San Francisco Police Department and the"homophile" community, as it was then known. He's the first example of an LGBTQ liaison that Insider uncovered. A straightman, he soon emerged as an ally of LGBTQ communities, working to change the department's policy regarding bar raids and entrapment of gay men in public restrooms.
"They hated me. They thought it was wrong for a policeman to associate with these 'faggots,'" Blackstone, who died in 2006, once recalled. In 1973, SFPD officers raided the counseling unit's offices and planted narcotics in his desk, according to Suzan Cooke, then a counselor in the unit. He was eventually removed from his liaison role and spent his remaining years on the force as a patrol officer.
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