That Martina is a woman, frankly, seems entirely meaningful to me, though her supervisor, Shamode Wimberly, disagrees. Gender doesn’t matter, Wimberly believes, if someone is good at her job. And Martina seems to do the work of three people. But in my view, the fact that she is a woman speaking mostly to women is significant. That she meets victims in their own homes, or the homes of friends and family, rather than forcing them through a bureaucratic maze of departments and courthouses and crisis centers, is meaningful. That she jokes around, asks about the rest of their lives, spends as many
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