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...high-crime black neighborhood. Whitmire and Watson are an odd pair, two very different feminist success stories. Dressed in bright colors, the two-term mayor is poised, polished and political. The chief, who in February became the first woman to head a major urban police department, is passionate, very pregnant and plainclothed in a black maternity dress. "The most important job in the police department is not my job," she says, "but the uniformed officer on the street. And right now, unless he has your help, that officer feels stymied...
...give birth to her third child next month. With Ann Richards just elected Governor and Whitmire as mayor, most gender-based expectations have been shattered in Houston. But the extreme novelty of her situation is not lost on Watson. "I find myself wondering if there will ever be another pregnant police chief," she says. "This may be a one-time deal. Most people who make it to the rank of chief tend to be older and gray haired...
...Hispanic woman). Alfred Calloway, a black councilman who opposed Watson's choices, stresses that little of the opposition was directed at her personally. "There's still an old Southern gentleman sort of thing here," he says. "They might be giving her more trouble if she weren't pregnant...
...aware of the risks: "I remember saying before I took the job that I needed three years to retirement, and the average chief lasts two and a half." She laughs and says, "I guess I'll need six months somewhere." Maybe not, for this police chief's career seems pregnant with possibilities...
...particular: "It's destroyed the family. It's weakened the church." Baltimore attorney Leronia Josey blames some middle- class black Christians for getting too "comfortable." The church, she says, let others take charge of community welfare, and "in the process the drugs crept in and the girls got pregnant...