If you click on the link of the title of this entry, you'll go to a news article about the Victoria police. Apparently, the men of the force don't really like it when tiny women become officers. Why might this be? Well, how about when these officers are in a chase, who runs faster? When the police must subdue a 250 lb man, can the little women actually perform? The answer is often that they cannot. Now, I understand that women do come in all shapes and sizes, but this "Harrison Bergeron" world of equality is truly out of hand. If I am being assaulted by a 250 lb man, I want two 200 lb men there to "take him down", not two other 5' 130lb women whom he can throw off like small gnats. Now, imagine my assailant is on PCP....gasp!
This reminds me of an almost laughable program going on in Baltimore when I lived there in the early 1990's. It was noted that the police academy was having a hard time retaining new recruits-specifically recruits from the inner city. The first hurdle was that the candidates could not pass the physical requirements, so they were made easier.
As a friend of mine put it: Great, now we have cops who cannot run a mile.
Next, it was discovered that the new recruits were not passing the psychological profile, so guess what? Yup, it was made easier, too.
My friend continued: We now have cops who can't run a mile and might not be able to asses situations and respond with a gun.
All this in an effort to recruit a certain "class" of people. All to promote "equality". It reminds me of a T-shirt I saw on cafepress: "Silly Liberal, Class Struggles are for Communists."
My understanding is that this ill-conceived plan by Baltimore was abandonded. While living there, I saw many a police car wrapped around some telephone or light pole. See, the chosen vertical market didn't know how to drive. Oh, boy......
