[texan75010]

Guess that's the long and short of it.....

This tiny woman needs a nice desk job before she kills someone she is unable to subdue.

[A. Pole]

Good Samaritan who helped a 5-foot, 4-inch female officer subdue a drug suspect who stands nearly 7 feet tall

Equal Rights Now bump!

[lesser_satan]

Maybe we should have some basic strength requirements for cops like we do firefighters. Nobody could call it sexist then. If a 5'-4" woman can bench 220 lbs, let her be a cop.

[TomGuy]

Life in the PC world.




A similar thing (female officer's size) resulted in that Atlanta judge being shot last year and that escapee kidnapping a lady at an apartment.

[hgro]

Short women are people too. She should have let him run though. She had his car and I.D.

[N. Theknow]

A Cherokee County city plans to honor a Good Samaritan who helped a 5-foot, 4-inch female officer subdue a drug suspect who stands nearly 7 feet tall.

He now faces a stretch in jail.

[ZGuy]

I wonder if this will follow the normal pattern and Steve Walker's boss will find some way of using this as a reason to fire him.

[subterfuge]

"It makes the police department feel really good that our citizens support us in that manner and will come and help us."

Uh oh. This "little lady" will be getting a talking to about this statment. The last thing the cops want is for regular folks to "help" them.

[kaylar]

Okay...I know this is probably gonna be seen as nitpicky : But a 5'4" woman is NOT "short" or "tiny". In this country, the average woman is 5'4" , ergo, this (female) cop is average for her gender. If the police officer in question were a MAN, he'd be short-but a woman-? Nope, she's average. (BTW, the average US man stands about 5' 9". )

Of course, that doesn't answer the question of whether women of average height and weight are strong enough to do as good a job as police as are men of average height and weight.

Incidentally, the hiring of women who couldn't meet the old height standards (usually 5' 8" IIRC)is usually blamed entirely on feminists. But ethnic groups who have an adult male height shorter than the US average joined in on feminist efforts to overturn the height requirments. FWIW.

[CSM]

Let's see if I have this straigh; in the name of diversity the city was forced to hire someone not physically capable of handling the work involved with the job. This results in an average citizen stepping in to physically assist with an arrest.

In the name of diversity, we now are willing to put more civilian lives at risk......

[oh8eleven]

[the evil conservative]

WHERE WILL YOU BE... THE NEXT TIME... DIVERSITY STRIKES... Will some child rapist get away because the cop was too tiny to arrest him? If so, and he kills one of my kids, you bet your sorry behind I'll sue her police department.