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.
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.
“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
PC run amuck.
More bad news.