Posted on 03/18/2024 10:48:10 AM PDT by george76
New York Mayor Ed Koch had a commonsense approach to hiring first responders, and it made a lifelong impression on me when I first heard it maybe 40 years ago. "I don’t care what sex a firefighter is," Mayor Koch said all those years ago, "as long as they can carry a 200 pound Mayor out of a burning building."
When it comes to dangerous jobs — first responders, soldiers, sailors, pilots, industrial workers, etc. — every other consideration must come in second to the question of whether or not this particular applicant has the physical and mental stamina to do the job.
Tell that to the folks in the Nashville Police Department where they just dropped an "ability test requirement in order to increase its female force from 13% to 30%,"
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why does Metro Nashville need a force that's 30% female? Why not 42%? Or some other arbitrary figure?
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the physical requirements for being a cop are not arbitrary. It's a physically demanding job, and in this next clip, you'll see what happens when you drop the non-arbitrary physical requirements just to meet an arbitrary Diversity/Inclusion/Equity (DIE) hiring goal.
4 overweight female cops try to arrest a male shoplifter for over 2 minutes.
He ends up escaping.
Diversity quotas are our strength!
DIE gets people killed — and its next victims are lining up in Nashville, even though they have no idea.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
vagina and a pulse???
That’s the very problem. One male cop subdues subject, life goes on. Four female cops have to escalate to deadly weapons or lose.
“In my 3 plus decades in Law enforcement.
I worked with some very special people hired under affirmative action.”
As did I, in my 40 years of military and civil service employment. We have been courting disaster and embracing dysfunction and mediocrity for half a century in the endless pursuit of “diversity.” Our nation is falling apart as a result. And we are fast approaching the point of dissolution as a direct consequence of these horrendously misguided policies.
A Storm is coming.
Putting a grandmother in the position of keeping control over a 6’+, 200#+, hardened criminal is the stupidity you get with Leftist policy.
All they had to do was knock him down and sit on him.
That’s the very problem. One male cop subdues subject, life goes on
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Derek Chauvin obviously disagrees
A pulse?
I support meritocracy, because I want police officers who are actually capable of putting handcuffs on a suspect.
In this video from Chicago, four police officers, working together, repeatedly try, and repeatedly fail, to put handcuffs on one suspect. Eventually the suspect runs away.
Video: https://twitter.com/CPD1617Scanner/status/1727678611933515858
News article: https://torontosun.com/news/world/chicago-cops-fitness-questioned-after-shoplifter-evades-four-officers
Nashville has unique issues.
It’s arguably the Bachelorette party capitol of the world, with lots of drunken ladies in a group.
Having more female police on Broadway, avoiding the pitfalls of a guy having to wrestle & cuff drunken single women, is a great idea.
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