They are so short in recruiting that they need to hire a 39 year old (let alone woman)?
When you have racial quotas the political bosses are pressuring you to fill, and candidate after candidate fails the most basic background for criminal record or drug use, nevermind IQ, you resort to taking whatever you can get...
Even if the physical standards must be fudged or even thrown out the window...Easy enough to fix, you just have one politically reliable officer conduct a closed super-secret Saturday fitness test, and Viola!, miracle of miracles, she passed! Seen it happen...
A female, let alone a BLACK female, is a plum hire, too choice to pass up...And they’ll prop her up if it takes a whole bunk of 2x4s and a keg of 16s to do it...