A police heroine? - Tidbits & Outrages
Washington Monthly, Oct, 2002
An El Paso, Texas, police officer nearly lost her job after supervisors decided her name was "inappropriate." Christine Lynn O'Kane's badge read: C. O'KANE. "It is clear that the intention was to refer to the drug cocaine," the department's personnel director complained. O'Kane appealed to the Civil Service Commission and won, then adopted her maiden name, Whitaker.
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