Cheryl Dorsey

Retired Sergeant Cheryl Dorsey, formerly of the Los Angeles Police Department, (LAPD) knows the streets. The LA native grew up middle class in South Central LA when it was predominately White and watched "White-flight" turn it into a Black neighborhood, littered with gang activity, compliments of the Crips and Bloods. Adopted, she was raised by two loving and doting parents. Her father was a metal-fitter at McDonnell Douglas Aircraft in Torrance, California and her mother was an accountant and the only black employee at McKesson & Robbins, a pharmaceutical company in Anaheim, California. A career in law enforcement came out of necessity to provide for her family (four sons). She never "bled blue". She married at 18; became a mom at 19; and divorced by 23. As a young single mother she found a job working for the State of California's Department of Justice as part of the secretarial pool working for special agents assigned to both Investigations and the Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement.