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Growing number of women leading US police departments
Associated Press ^ | Feb 4, 2017 1:26 PM EST | Michael Balsamo

Posted on 02/04/2017 8:59:18 PM PST by Olog-hai

When Anne Kirkpatrick took the helm at the scandal-ridden Oakland Police Department, she inherited an agency that the city’s mayor likened to a frat house.

The veteran police officer knew she inevitably would be asked what it’s like to combat the culture as one of a growing number of women heading police departments, many struggling to repair their public image. […]

Female police officers tend to use wits over brawn to deescalate potentially violent situations, experts say, and as departments shift their focus to nonviolent techniques, it’s natural they would tap more women as leaders. …

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: bluelivesmatter; chiefofpolice; police; women
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To: notaliberal

They didn’t.

They lowered the standards.

This isn’t just limited to gender. I believe they have lowered other standards to increase minority involvement in the departments too.


21 posted on 02/04/2017 11:44:18 PM PST by DoughtyOne (NeverTrump, a movement that was revealed to be a movement. Thank heaven we flushed!)
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To: Olog-hai

Not good.


22 posted on 02/04/2017 11:57:11 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Olog-hai

So that’s the problem! No wonder the crime rates are up.


23 posted on 02/05/2017 12:10:07 AM PST by Beagle8U (Long live Yoga Pants!)
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To: Olog-hai
America is a feminine society. It will always be run at the top by men pulling the levers but women are coming to dominate the lower levels and their vote is the caressing hand on the hand that pulls the levers. The laws passed in Congress are feminine in tenor. A Feminine civilization cannot prevail in a world inhabited by robust masculine civilizations and there are two of those, China and Islam, China in part because the men in control are in total control and in part because China has slaughtered a couple of generations of its female unborn. It has a mass of men who cannot get wives. That is an energy that must be forced outward in war or colonization. Islam relegates its women to commodity status and they have no part in the civilization except as factories to keep the Islamic machine going from generation to generation. One of them will ultimately prevail and be the next world empire if there is another world empire. The current one cannot survive, even with its domination of the seas and military superdominance. It is a feminine culture and is decaying fast has decayed morally and ethically and socially (and educationally) past the point of no return.

Americans did it to America way back with the 16th, 17th, and 19th Amendments whereby we converted the Sovereign States to progressively less sovereign provinces and gave control of the economy to a central government and guaranteed that women would set the tone of the culture and the Civilization. Women and men in the aggregate want different things. Men want liberty and strength. Women want protection. When that turns to voting the conclusion is inevitable. Men build business empires and martial empires. Women build cocoons and vote to make everyone act nice and be all predictable. Again, China and Islam are masculine civilizations. America and Europe are Feminine, Europe being a few steps beyond America and visibly collapsing. America still has a robust sector, but it is only a sector, of masculinity expressed in the widening possession of guns and their dominance of that tiny area of legislation and the courts. Women will ultimately dominate that, too.

The Constitution is a masculine document. As women have come to dominate the vote the Constitution loses more and more of its parts. They are not totally rubbished but are folded and put in the sock drawer to be glanced at from time to time so that we can remember what it was like when those beastly men controlled things.

24 posted on 02/05/2017 12:43:59 AM PST by arthurus
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To: Olog-hai

Truth be known very few of these so called leaders were ever “the first in the door” or made arrests on their own without the aid of male counterparts.Many received their promotions due to their sexual orientation and political correctness.


25 posted on 02/05/2017 3:43:24 AM PST by kenmcg
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To: Olog-hai

Women in correctional facilities as well, used as a mother figure because there were never any father figures growing up


26 posted on 02/05/2017 4:28:16 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: Olog-hai

I spent nearly 3 decades in a large, midwestern PD. Most of my time was “in the field”. I worked around and supervised female officers. By and large, our female officers were as tough and willing to mix it up with a suspect as any male officer. Now, what I did notice was that any officer, male or female, who had aspirations on being promoted to a command position, got out of the field just as soon as they could and took some back office job where the risks to personal safety were nil and therefore they lost their “edge”. The loss of their street smarts then impacted how they made decisions for the department. Just my take.


27 posted on 02/05/2017 5:09:29 AM PST by RetiredCopFarmer
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To: DoughtyOne

“I believe they have lowered other standards to increase minority involvement in the departments too.”

Ya THINK? :)


28 posted on 02/05/2017 5:11:24 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (If you think the party that freed the slaves are the racist ones, you probably are a liberal.)
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To: Olog-hai

No problem with female heads of police departments as long as they are qualified and have service records comparable to their male counterparts. However, I feel on some cases these female chiefs of police got their jobs based on gender not qualifications and that more qualified males were passed over for the job. Ditto for fire chiefs. In ultra liberal Minneapolis an avowed lesbian was made fire chief a few years ago. She proceeded to promote her lesbian friends and created a scandal in the department before being forced out. The city was sued by several male members of the department who were passed over for promotion because of their gender. The current chief of police in Minneapolis is female and leaves me very unimpressed as the BLM group goes on rampages and even nearly shutdown a police precinct. Crime in downtown Minneapolis is also up under her leadership. Of course the mayor of Minneapolis is female and a left wing loon.


29 posted on 02/05/2017 5:17:20 AM PST by The Great RJ ("Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money." Margaret Thatcher)
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To: Olog-hai

“Female police officers tend to use wits over brawn to deescalate potentially violent situations...”

If I recall, PDs with more women officers have more instances of using force to get compliance by both male and female officers. The male officers have to back up and protect female officers and wind up having to use force when they normally wouldn’t. The PDs with more black male officers supposedly have the least instances of using force to get compliance.

Freegards


30 posted on 02/05/2017 5:19:56 AM PST by Ransomed
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To: notaliberal

They make it through training by not having to preform to the same standards as male officers.

And by getting a pass by management.


31 posted on 02/05/2017 5:24:16 AM PST by riverrunner
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To: heights
Yep. And the sad thing is, that a few of them have actually earned their leadership of US Police Departments. However, by flooding the ranks with PC appointments, we shall never be able to learn which ones actually earned there way there.

Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell was an incredible physician not because she was a woman, but because she was an incredible physician who had to overcome incredible odds and prejudice which held her to a higher standard than many of her contemporaries.

32 posted on 02/05/2017 5:50:15 AM PST by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: Olog-hai

PC run amuck.


33 posted on 02/05/2017 7:02:54 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: rlmorel
Well, I don't know. I have seen women in movies kick butt on men twice their size, so I know what you say is false.

...In the movies...ha ha ha ha!!!!!!!!

34 posted on 02/05/2017 9:33:41 AM PST by notaliberal (St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle,)
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To: Olog-hai

btw, my post #18 was not directed at you, FRiend, but at the author.


35 posted on 02/05/2017 10:37:17 AM PST by Albion Wilde ("January 20, 2017, will be remembered as the day the people became the rulers of this nation again.")
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To: IDontLikeToPayTaxes
Don't the stats say that women are MORE likely to use their service firearm to de-escalate

. . . AND more likely (by a huge multiple) of have their service weapons grabbed by a bad guy and used on them.

But at the same time, as I was alluding to, the police chief-ettes are absolute wussies in the face of disorder. They always cave and are rewarded with escalated mayhem in the streets. It may be because most female chiefs are Leftists.

36 posted on 02/05/2017 10:46:15 AM PST by SamuraiScot
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To: SamuraiScot

Another example how the Left has infiltrated literally every institution in Western Civilization while the Republicans sat in the corner and worried about being called “racist” for the past 50 years.


37 posted on 02/05/2017 11:49:34 AM PST by IDontLikeToPayTaxes
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation
Growing number of LIBERAL women “leading” U.S. police departments.....

And many of them play for the other team.

38 posted on 02/05/2017 11:52:17 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Olog-hai

More bad news.


39 posted on 02/05/2017 1:32:20 PM PST by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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