It’s 1979 and a 21-year-old named Laurie Bembenek has signed up for the Milwaukee police academy, joining the first wave of female patrol officers in America. She’s able to quickly adjust to the job and the sexist treatment by her superiors, but her troubles are just beginning. Run Bambi Run is an Apple Original podcast, produced by Campside Media. Listen and follow on Apple Podcasts. https://apple.co/RunBambiRun
If you enjoy partying, sleeping around, debauchery, and general misbehavior, I gotta tell you something.
The 1980 Milwaukee police department was the place to be.
And that's where Bambi, a sassy 21 year old recruit, found herself.
Obviously, they were all sleeping together.
It was like the biggest ridiculous sex party in the world.
Talk about it.
Was like an incestuous party.
Police academy, who's next?
This was fine with Bambi.
She was a super hot former model, and she liked all night parties as much as the next gal.
But pretty soon, she discovered that corruption in the ranks went way beyond naked, drunken picnics.
These crazy fucks, they're doing stuff out there that's just off the charts, right?
Brutal, unnecessary force.
Drug dealing, gambling and gun running, oral sex from prostitutes.
And the chief of police didn't see to notice any of it.
To put it quite simply, we have no problems.
Unless, of course, you happened to be one of the few women on the force.
Then you were singled out, disciplined, and systematically removed.
And Bambi wasn't having it.
She was young and had a mouth on her and spoke up when something went wrong.