The NYPD had standards about new recruits that were hired at one point. After the federal consent decree is when 5’1 women who were not capable of detaining a 6’1 male perp, strung out on PCP, were walking the beat with their painted nails, long hair and gear that they clearly did not have a handle on. Now, the NYPD allows visible tattoos, sloppy uniforms and police who patrol the subways who I have seen playing on their cell phones with their backs turned to the crowd and no awareness of securing their sidearm. Standards have been lowered so much. Then there are the female firefighters who can fail all of the evolutions of the physical agility test and still get hired. Does anyone want a 5’1 110lb female who cannot wear the 65lbs of bunker gear needed to be the one to drag you out of a burning building?
Men and women are physically different. Fact. If a woman can do the same physical agility requirements as a man, then she deserves the job. Otherwise, she is a threat to the department and the public.
x1000 for the FDNY
The courts forced them to change the physical training test because it was “unfair to women recruits.” So who would you rather have save you if you were in a fire?? A 110 pound woman who could not lift her own weight? Or a 220lb dude in good physical shape?