NYPD Nude

When New York Police Department officer Carol Shaya posed nude for Playboy magazine, she drew the wrath of many of her female colleagues. They felt that her striptease in uniform knocked their progress back by twenty years. The debate about the crossover between work and private life had already arisen in 1983 when Sergeant Cibella Borges was sacked from the force for appearing in a hardcore men’s magazine. She took her case to the High Court where she was reinstated. NYPD Nude interviews Carol, Cibella, and senior colleagues within the NYPD to discuss the boundaries between private and professional life in the Carol Shaya case. 

NYPD Nude is part of Margo Harkin: Radical Witness on the IFI Archive Player. To view more of the collection, please click here.