Study: Women Cops Less Brutal

Newsday ^ | 05/01/02 | David Crary

[What Is Ain't]

Male officers are far more likely than female officers to get entangled in police brutality cases, according to an advocacy group dismayed by a recent drop in the number of women in police jobs.

Women comprise 12.7 percent of the personnel in large police departments, yet account for only 2 percent of the cases in which a complaint of excessive force is upheld, the National Center for Women and Policing said.

The center's new report, analyzing the gender of officers involved in brutality cases, was released as the group opened its national conference Wednesday in Washington.

[What Is Ain't]

Patent nonsense as usual from Newsday.

[Dan from Michigan]

I wonder how many more woman cops get attacked from criminals?????

[mlmr]

Tiny, Little Police Women at Desk Jobs Don't Beat Up Big Criminals as Badly as Big, White, Rednecked Police Men in Patrol Cars.

This is the real headline.

Time to duck and cover! smile!!

[BnBlFlag]

LOL! But very true.It was standard procedure in HPD here in Houston that anyone who ran from the Po-lice got an automatic ass whippin'. I can't see these new women upholding that venerable tradition.

[Paleo Conservative]

Where are the pictures?

[TheHound]

"Stay in the car girl, I'll take care of this one."

[Mensch]

Women cops less brutal? Well I guess so considering that every time a difficult arrest is made, women cops are always more than happy to step back and let the men take over.

Of course if you go with the Hollywood take, just the opposite is true.

[moyden]

Because women cops leave it to the men to subdue the real trouble-makers. Just proves that women shouldn't be cops to begin with.

[antidisestablishment]

Anyone else here find irony in this:

"The old paramilitary, patriarchal system is not working," said Moore, a former deputy assistant director of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and an ex-New York City officer. "We're so used to a culture of 'Boys will be boys.' It's not acceptable -- we need to have a total culture change."

A former director of the most brutal force in our history calling for touchy-feely hiring?

[dalereed]

It's a shame that that female cop that Rodney King tried to take her gun was stopped by the male cops on the scene. The taxpayers would have fared much better if they had let King kill her.

[Newbomb Turk]

Same reasoning I use in going to a female dentist. No way she can push on those dental tools as hard as a male.

[Mensch]

"The old paramilitary, patriarchal system is not working," said Moore, a former deputy assistant director of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and an ex-New York City officer. "We're so used to a culture of 'Boys will be boys.' It's not acceptable -- we need to have a total culture change."

Sigh... Nonsense. What we have here is a culture of dour, penis-envious, bull-dykes, and ridiculous, utopians, whose only interest in effective policeing, is as a subject upon which they can bloviate.

[dbwz]

"Widespread bias in police hiring, selection policies and recruitment practices keeps the numbers of women in law enforcement artificially low," Moore said.

At the same time, the lowering of hiring standards makes the ratios artificially high. This is what I object to.

I have no quarrel with women being permitted the same opportunity to try out for any job. But, if the job in question requires that the applicant have certain abilities, particularly those of a physical nature, then there should be no compromise in the requirements for the sake of diversity. If this happens, the public suffers.

[newwahoo]

Two points for consideration:

1. A large number of female police officers seem to end up behind a desk.

2. How many macho Latino men are going to report an instance of police excess if it happens to be meted out by a woman?

Just some things to consider...Stats are great, but only if you can put them in a wider perspective.

[Reactionary]

I don't believe this article one bit. After all, women are less physically powerful than men. When faced with a situation where they are in physical danger (and without men to back them up), it stands to reason that they cannot rely on physical strength to get them out of a situation. I think it's very reasonable to assume that women police officers would be more prone to use lethal force to diffuse a situation than men.

You're right, however. This article is the usual equalitarian drivel from NewsWeek.

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

When this big, abusive beast of a neighbor I have came pounding on my door, two cops showed up. One was a very nice looking, young, sexy Mexican guy and the other was a short, overweight, frightened looking female officer. When I saw her I knew I would have been in trouble if she had arrived by herself. Fortunately, the other officer had a little chat with the beast and he hasn't bothered me since:)

[DennisR]

Not sure about anyone else, but where I live the women police officers are usually seen driving around on the weekends during the day. Not much crime on a Sunday afternoon, usually. Granted, I am usually not out driving around at 2:00 a.m., but I cannot imagine a single, female officer and her backup--another single, female officer--being sent to break up a drunken brawl at the local tavern.