Posted on 08/07/2022 12:27:43 PM PDT by simpson96
At the Police Training Academy in Madison, Wis., there are 46 recruits in two groups for the class of 2022. Nikki Acker, 36, is one of nine female trainees in the group who are new to policing.
Part of their training today is how to handcuff a person. Their shoes squeak on the blue floor mats as they practice.
Acker used to be a teller at a credit union and worked in property management. She's 5'4" and never imagined being a police officer until she got a job working as a clerk in the records department.
"I guess I had in my mind the stereotype of these big guys with military backgrounds," she laughs, "and once I started learning more and getting involved in reading reports and seeing the calls, I learned that they're so much more than that."
They're often people with good communication skills, she says, problem-solving skills — and she felt that type of job was something she could do.
Despite all the controversy surrounding policing, her husband and friends encouraged her to try it.(snip)
Some changes designed to improve the experience of women in the ranks are simple, low-cost steps, says Valenta — like using inclusive language and saying "patrol officer" instead of "patrolman."(snip)
Female officers with children who work a daytime shift often don't try for promotions so they can keep their family-friendly hours. Something a male officer rarely has to contemplate.
What can also be daunting are the physical aspects of the entrance exam. For example, applicants must be able to do 15 pushups to get in the door, then 18 at the beginning of training and 23 at the end.
(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...
Hypothetical situation, huh? All right, I’m standing on the street corner, and Mrs. Grey there comes up and propositions me. She says if I come home with her, for $5 she’ll put on an exhibition with a Shetland pony.........
Good thing Hollywood hasn’t attempted to do a remake of this film (yet)
I posted the entire scene in #19.
Yes, I need to watch that again. I still have tears in my eyes from the Shetland pony line.
I have no problem with women on a local police force.
Setting some artificial percentage that would be “good” is just stupid and not natural,
Women should (a) appply if they want to and (b) chosen when the police officials decides they would be a good police officer. Neither (a) nor (b) should be because of a quota, and not even as an attempt to meet a quota.
Not going to happen. There are not enough females who want to be cops, meet the physical and strength requirements, and are suited for the job.
Unless they change the standards, like they always do, to pretend that they are unbiased.
The 30% mentioned is totally unrealistic and stupid.
It’s the male of the species that is more suited for dangerous jobs, on average. Inescapable fact of nature.
Believe it or not, men and women differ tremendously, both physically and psychologically. So, you can B.S. yourself into believing that women are the equal of men in the performance of “that” job. But, it’s a dangerous deconstruction of reality! Just sayin’.
Change the culture for better or for worse???
I especially liked the part when the female officer candidate told Dirty Harry, “It’s my ass.”
Making us all less safe
Render local police departments so ineffective that people will demand a National Police Force.
BITD, my friend who was all of 5 foot 6 and 150 lbs, was being arrested for drunkeness in public. The officer was a male about the same build but a little taller. He refused, and punched him, knocking him out and they never even caught him or charged him for it.
I remember when you had to be 6’ to be a cop, and 6’4” to be a State Trooper in WA. You simply do not need to be an aggressive officer to subdue most people, when you have the edge on them physically.
I seem to remember that the Rodney King situation came about because a female officer was the first to contact him, and he threw her off like a ragdoll. The men did what men do, they became enraged, and gave him the beating he had been asking for, frankly for years.
Top Notch!!
NPR could be correct if they enlist weak-minded woke womanoids.
However, the women I know are smart (and therefore conservative), and you really would not want to cross them were they police officers.
Think of that repulsive pajama guy in the Dorkbamacare commercials. Think of an even more woke woman. That’s an NPR cop.
Now, clean up your wretching, and go and get a good bourbon/scotch/manly man drink.
I think it comes down to whether or not you played with dolls as a child. Playing with dolls is not bad per se; that is, if you have the emotional character to rip the doll’s head-off!
About 15 years ago there was a study that showed just that. Can't recall the specifics. It stuck with me, though, because at the time I was doing some volunteer work with our local PD.
Waaay too many TV and movie scenes where they show petite woman kicking the crap out of males. If a female police officer is shown arresting a male, they show the perp with minimal struggle, and then he willingly holds his hands behind his back to be cuffed. It’s madness. But people easily believe what they see on TV.
As a kid a really wanted to be a police officer and took courses in HS at the local community college. But then it dawned on me I wasn’t going to be physically big enough and I let that dream go... and joined the military.
Good luck to this 5’4” female. I hope she is safe, and I hope she doesn’t put her partner in jeopardy either.
Cops used to have to be big men, and they had billy clubs, and they would walk into a bar alone to make an arrest.
Cops were still cops and gave out plenty of illegal beatings, but at least they weren’t gunning everyone and their dog.
As usual in post-60s America, we didn’t fix things, we made them worse.
Have you seen the policewomen on Patrol Live??? They sound like idiots!
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