One of the dirty little secrets about female cops is that, feeling quite reasonably that they’re unable to use intermediate force, they escalate more directly to deadly force.
Each 1% increase in female officers increases deadly force incidents by 2.7&.
http://www.thehighroad.org/archive/index.php/t-130430.html
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Not at all surprising.
White male cops are doing most of the shooting, according to a study published in 'Criminal Justice and Behavior' =>
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Police Officer Characteristics and the Likelihood of Using Deadly Force
April 2008
Male officers were more likely to shoot than female officers, and college-educated officers were less likely to be involved in shootings than officers with no college education. Risk of officer-involved shooting was reduced as the officer aged.
White, non-Hispanic officers were more likely to shoot than Hispanic officers; however, there was no significant difference between Hispanic and Black officers.
Yup. And I would bet that the guys that couldn’t make the physical before recent times add to that statistic too.