{"id":2027,"date":"2005-12-23T02:43:29","date_gmt":"2005-12-23T09:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/12\/22\/female-cops-are-better-cops\/"},"modified":"2005-12-23T02:43:29","modified_gmt":"2005-12-23T09:43:29","slug":"female-cops-are-better-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=2027","title":{"rendered":"Female Cops Are Better Cops"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Five Before Midnight<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Retention of women in the department and others like it continue to be a problem, particularly during the probational period when women are dropped for poor evaluations for being “too slow”, lacking in “gusto” and other similar reasons. Experts in women and policing state that such terms are code words to promote the idea that female officers are simply inferior to their male counterparts. […]<\/p>\n

Which is a shame, because many studies done comparing female officers to male officers have favored the women, including those done on the issue of excessive force. In statistics provided for many larger law enforcement agencies, women comprise about 5% of complaints involving excessive force, 5% of citizen complaints and 2% of sustained complaints. Women engage in as many arrests as their male counterparts and do not hesitate to use force when necessary, but their rates of excessive force are far exceeded by male officers.<\/p>\n

Financially, women are more cost-effective when it comes to civil litigation paid out by cities and counties in relation to excessive force, sexual assaults and domestic violence. Although nationally, women are outnumbered by about 6.5 to 1, in terms of law suits paid out, men outnumber women, anywhere from 20 to 40 to 1.<\/p>\n

So the logical thing to do would be to hire more female officers, particularly as the department moves away from parimilitary style policing and continues to embrace Community Oriented Problem Solving policing. Yet, the numbers of female officers in the RPD will continue to lag behind those of men for a long time.<\/p><\/div>\n

The entire post (which covers a lot more ground, including a discussion of the harassment female officers have faced) is fascinating. The comments are also very impressive; blogger Mary (aka Radfem) does a great job responding to some very belligerant cops who post anonymously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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