While being a minority in any field of work can be a difficult experience, it can be even more difficult when the job in question is the police; after all, compared to other career fields, a minority in the police may be called upon to arrest or even kill members of their own group.

When a member of a minority group joins the police, it can be a double-edged sword; on the one hand, there may be suspicions from other police officers that they'll go easy on a suspect if the suspect is "one of their own", while the community they come from might view them as a sell-out or even a full-on