“Americans over a certain age are often surprised to see diminutive women patrolling their city’s meanest streets. The policemen of their childhood were tall, commanding figures. Have the cops shrunk? Well, yes. In March 1973, the federal Law Enforcement Assistance Administration issued an order forbidding any local police department that received federal funds (that is, all of them) to maintain minimum height requirements—the rules disqualified too many women. In 1977, the Supreme Court seconded LEAA by striking down Alabama’s minimum height requirement as a violation of the 1964 act. The federal government lived up to its own principles. In 1971 it waived size and strength requirements for its own police forces. In 1977, New York City acceded to a judicial order and permitted women to apply for fire-fighting jobs. None of the applicants passed the department’s strength test so the judge ordered the strength test made easier until sufficient numbers of women could pass.”
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So ridiculous. The quality of every job has gone down because of stupid ideology.
Standards have been lowered not only for police, but in the military, endangering lives.
Women (and every other “diversity hire”) should not do jobs they’re not qualified for, period.
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But, but…everyone knows that a 100 pound woman with the right skills can whip a 200 pound man and then cart his body off scene…you know, in the movies?
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