Mary Foley was a trailblazing 1920s NYC female police officer

Mary Foley was a trailblazing 1920s NYC female police officer

In ‘The Girls Who Fought Crime: The Untold True Story of the Country’s First Female Investigator and Her Crime Fighting Squad’ (Sourcebooks), retired US Army Major General Mari K. Eder tells the story of Mary Foley, a pioneering police officer in New York City in the 1920s and 1930s. Born in 1886, Mary, or “Mae,” Foley was … Read more