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DOJ lawsuit: Physical test for police
officers discriminates against women
Washington Examiner ^
| 7/3/12
| Joel Gehrke
Posted on 07/03/2012 4:08:35 PM PDT by Nachum
The Corpus Christi, Tex. Police Department has found itself on the business end of a civil rights lawsuit after the Justice Department concluded that a physical ability test used when considering job applications discriminates against women. As a condition for employment, new applicants must pass a physical ability test (PAT) involving: pullups, a 300-meter run, a 1.5 mile run, and sit-ups. Only 19 percent of female applicants passed this test between 2005 and 2009, compared to 63 percent of men, the DOJ complaint records. The Justice Department says that the test discriminates
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: doj; fitness; lawsuit; physical; physicalfitness; test
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I look forward to the day Eric Holder gets a little of what he is dishing out
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posted on
07/03/2012 4:08:44 PM PDT
by
Nachum
To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...
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posted on
07/03/2012 4:11:20 PM PDT
by
Nachum
(The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
To: Nachum
Sad part is, one day one of these “affirmative action” candidates is going to get killed because she couldn’t perform her job. And in the process she is going to get her partner killed also.
Then what happens?
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posted on
07/03/2012 4:12:51 PM PDT
by
EQAndyBuzz
(ABO 2012)
To: Nachum
political correctness kills almost as many people as stupidity. unfortunately stupidity doesn’t kill enough.
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posted on
07/03/2012 4:13:38 PM PDT
by
bravo whiskey
(If the little things really bother you, maybe it's because the big things are going well.)
To: EQAndyBuzz
Worse than her getting killed, something body else,(ie her partner) may get killed because she can’t physically do the job.
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posted on
07/03/2012 4:15:02 PM PDT
by
scbison
To: SkyDancer
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posted on
07/03/2012 4:16:09 PM PDT
by
JimWayne
To: EQAndyBuzz
Lawyers sue the PD and the City for wrongful death.
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posted on
07/03/2012 4:16:40 PM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
To: Nachum
Only for states that forbid you to protect yourself. Where I live in the US it would take a deputy forty-five minutes to get to our house, if he’s not busy elsewhere. As pappy sez: “We don’ need no steenkin’ cops”
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posted on
07/03/2012 4:18:30 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
("Ambition Without Talent Is Sad - Talent Without Ambition Is Worse")
To: Nachum
Murders should get the DOJ to sue PD’s everywhere on their behalf.
Laws against murder discriminate against killers.
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posted on
07/03/2012 4:20:25 PM PDT
by
HereInTheHeartland
("The writing is on the wall - Unions are screwed. reformist2 10:04 PM #27")
To: EQAndyBuzz
I believe this has been going on for years but usually with other plaintiffs. The military lowered their physical standards years ago to accommodate women. However there are consequences which can be fatal.
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posted on
07/03/2012 4:22:01 PM PDT
by
elpadre
(AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
To: EQAndyBuzz
I believe this has been going on for years but usually with other plaintiffs. The military lowered their physical standards years ago to accommodate women. However there are consequences which can be fatal.
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posted on
07/03/2012 4:22:01 PM PDT
by
elpadre
(AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
To: Nachum
girls don't need to be physically able to pass the test cause they carry a gun, right???
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posted on
07/03/2012 4:25:31 PM PDT
by
Chode
(American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: HereInTheHeartland
To discriminate is good
in the old days everyone discriminated daily.
In the store you discriminate against rotten food, you discriminate against overpriced items.
In employment you discriminate and don’t hire the sloppy or dirty ones.
To discriminate is as old as time and is good and natural
To: Nachum
is there a test for crossdressers.
To: Nachum
Fine.
Let me have a chick that wants to arrest me for anything.
The trouble is, for every chick hired, 3 burly dudes need to be hired to back her up.
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posted on
07/03/2012 4:28:02 PM PDT
by
elkfersupper
( Member of the Original Defiant Class)
To: Nachum
Those gals would make it in the Rangers though.
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posted on
07/03/2012 4:28:34 PM PDT
by
xone
To: Nachum
Basketball discriminates against short people.
Track and Field discriminates against slow people.
Airlines don’t hire blind pilots.
Bomb squads don’t hire those with hand tremors.
Medical school requires you know chemistry.
Math requires a correct answer.
To the useless hunks of whining protoplasm I write, “Get over yourself you dumb hags.”
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posted on
07/03/2012 4:28:34 PM PDT
by
lastchance
("Nisi credideritis, non intelligetis" St. Augustine)
To: Nachum
Men must run 2000 yards in four minutes.Women should be able to get by with a 10 minute stroll of 200 yards.
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posted on
07/03/2012 4:28:42 PM PDT
by
Gay State Conservative
(Bill Ayers Was *Not* "Just Some Guy In The Neighborhood")
To: Chode
They have to be able to shoot a dog or a disabled vet without having the gun recoil into their faces. It’s just good sense.
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posted on
07/03/2012 4:28:58 PM PDT
by
Cyber Liberty
(Obama considers the Third World morally superior to the United States.)
To: elpadre
Before I retired from the Air Force at the age of 44, I had to run 1.5 miles faster than an 18 year old girl to meet standards.
Would someone please explain this to me?
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posted on
07/03/2012 4:29:32 PM PDT
by
Rides_A_Red_Horse
(If there is a war on women, the Kennedys are the Spec Ops troops.)
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