bet they had to lower the physical requirements for her to become that role??
“bet they had to lower the physical requirements for her to become that role??”
At this point the only requirements for a woman or preferred minority to be a cop seems to be the absence of a felony conviction. NJ.com had a photo of Newarks cops being laid off; they were having some kind of military-style ceremony (with boots lined up in front of them). Many of them were in no condition to be cops (and these were the young ones - last in, first out); with the exception of a couple that looked like they were former military, these slobs were in no shape to be cops (in Newark, or anywhere else).
A town near mine hired one of these young laid-off cops (I think he was white - his father was a captain or something in the Newark PD); he was arrested a few months later for stealing from a resident’s home.
They tried to soften the blow of the layoffs by trying to place these people with other departments that might be hiring; this basically took any young applicants (including a former Marine I know) and dashed any chances they had of getting police work.