8% of female police officers in London don't meet basic fitness requirements (this compares with 1.2% of male officers)

SigmundFloyd76 · 2015-01-11T15:17:59+00:00

In my city right now there are numerous public police incidents involving woman officers. Nobody has brought the issue up yet, but I can't help to think it every time I hear the news.

There was a female officer who SHOT at a man for trying to run from her for stealing something from a car (he wasn't hit, but she would have shot him in the back. Just because she was physically unable to "stop" him, it doesn't give her permission to KILL him. It turned out he has kids at home and was recently let go from his job.

There are two separate cases of a driver fleeing where the officer got "dragged" some distance; both female police.

I'm all for equal opportunity, but if you aren't physically up to the job, well you shouldn't have the job. Period.

Edit: I am a 150lb man, I am NOT up to the job of a Police officer. If I was passionate about being a police officer, I'd hit the gym, I'd eat like a horse and I'd learn to fight.

JohnKimble111 · 2015-01-11T01:47:10+00:00

Another way of looking at the figures is that rougly 1 out of every 12 females was unfit for duty compared with 1 male out of every 83.

BeeeeboBrinker · 2015-01-11T02:00:30+00:00

Female privilege is written all over this.

BeeeeboBrinker · 2015-01-11T04:38:18+00:00

This post should have a "Progess" tag on it.

From the title, I expected it to be news about female officers not being held to the same standard.

But the article is actually saying the opposite, that they have just recently instituted a standard and process for remedying the problem.

pocketknifeMT · 2015-01-12T16:19:10+00:00

The US has to have either way worse stats, or far more lax requirements.

This is more a police policy failure.

2015-01-12T17:27:33+00:00

Thank you for including the comparative stats for men. It's one thing I've been incredibly frustrated at with a lot of feminist statistics is they never put things in context. Really, it's only a gendered problem if there is a difference.

Anyway, I appreciate it.

Title	8% of female police officers in London don't meet basic fitness requirements (this compares with 1.2% of male officers)
Author	JohnKimble111
Upvotes	13
Comments	9
Date	January 11, 2015 1:32 AM UTC (11 years ago)
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