[Rusty0604]

As much as I comment on some "bad cop" threads, I DO want the police to be able to catch the bad guys. I guess Holder doesn't think that is the main purpose for police; he thinks it is an employment agency.

[old and tired]

Ask any cop, a female cop is much more likely to pull her gun. Too often, the women don’t have the strength to subdue the bad guys.

[Sacajaweau]

71% passed.....which means it is easily obtainable. Not discrimination at all.

[Buckeye McFrog]

They can reference the women in Corpus Christi who split the $700K pot for NOT being cops to enhance their pitch for the Fluke Vote.

[ThunderSleeps]

Seems to me the requirements for the job are fair and non-discriminatory. That is, if there is a situation it is going to require a certain level of physical ability to deal with it. Suspects aren't going to say "Gee, it's a woman trying to apprehend me, I'll only fight 3/4 as hard as if it were a man..." Or carrying that unconscious person out of harms way doesn't magically become easier just because the trooper is a woman.

In other words it takes a certain level of physical ability to perform the job safely, period. Therefore the physical fitness requirement should be the same no-matter who is applying.

Guess what, men and women are different. In general there are differences in size and physical strength between men and women. That's not a gender bias, it is a well documented and studied trait of our species. (our species is not alone in this either, it is quite common) No amount of liberal hand-wringing and wishing we were all truly equal in some unicorn dotted landscape will change that basic fact.

Apparently the physical requirements are not particularly stressing as what, 94% of men who apply pass the test? Ok, it is likely that only people reasonably fit even apply, but that is still an extremely high pass rate. Apparently 71% of women who apply pass too. That is also a great pass rate. It tells me that passing the test is not impossible for women, and in fact nearly 3 out of 4 women who try it do pass.

[armydawg505]

So the PA State Police use equal standards? I remember when radical feminists were screaming for equality. Now of course we have moved far beyond equality in many areas to preferential treatment regardless of the outcome.

[Dr.Deth]

DOJ Says Pa. State Police Discriminated Against Women Who Flunked Physical Fitness Tests

The meaning of the word "discriminate" is "to differentiate between good quality and bad quality."

[econjack]

For Holder’s department to take on this problem given all of the Constitutional infractions this clown is involved in seems to me that he’s rearranging the deck furniture on the Titanic.

[Durus]

Any objective measurement with a minimum passing score is discriminatory by definition. They discriminate against those who can't pass. Because they are objectively measuring physical attributes regardless of sex they are not discriminating against women, just those not strong enough to do the job.

In my state there used to be a requirement for state police that they must be a minimum of 6' tall. This was waived for women and is in fact a clear case of discrimination.

[Bogey78O]

Will the DOJ chip in for the funeral costs for dead cops due to PC?

[afsnco]

Why should they limit social engineering to only the military?

[bgill]

What, criminals don’t respect female cops enough to slow down for them?

[1010RD]

Are the requirements necessary. Is the standard equally held? Then it’s fine.

[itsahoot]

This should be under the heading; “You can’t make this stuff up.”

[jimt]

The racist communist running the “Just Us” department scores another fabricated discrimination case.

To call him a POS is a vast understatement.

[GeronL]

Just like the military, different standards for different folks.

Wait until they start letting minorities graduate with 50’s instead of 70’s...

some places probably already do