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Amy-Strange

(854 posts)
Tue Jun 23, 2020, 05:24 PM Jun 2020

Want to reform the police? Hire more women

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Want to reform the police? Hire more women

It was a moment that captured national attention and revealed an important lesson about police reform.

A Fort Lauderdale, Florida, policeman, facing off against a line of yelling demonstrators, sticks his finger in the face of a protester. He then turns toward a kneeling woman, her hands raised in protest. The officer suddenly lunges and shoves her.

Then, a female officer appears. She swats her male colleague back toward a line of patrol cars, waving her arm and appearing to upbraid him for what he did.

"Thank you!" a protester shouts at Officer Krystle Smith, who won praise for her actions on social media and from police leaders around the country.

Neither Smith nor Officer Steven Pohorence, who is suspended pending an outside investigation, were allowed to comment on the incident.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/want-to-reform-the-police-hire-more-women/ar-BB15REkL?ocid=msedgntp
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Want to reform the police? Hire more women (Original Post) Amy-Strange Jun 2020 OP
AND elect a woman President! Wawannabe Jun 2020 #1
Women don't have fragile, precious male egos to protect. Aristus Jun 2020 #2
This!👆 SheltieLover Jun 2020 #3
Yes! Alacritous Crier Jun 2020 #4
only if you hire enough of them. otherwise the assholes will destroy them too. mopinko Jun 2020 #5

mopinko

(69,987 posts)
5. only if you hire enough of them. otherwise the assholes will destroy them too.
Tue Jun 23, 2020, 07:56 PM
Jun 2020

one by one.

i have been a token in a couple of jobs back in the day of affirmative action. you need 20% before women are even safe in those jobs.
and when you hire them, they have no power.

sorry, i didnt even click the link, but i have had issues w cpd, and women cops have been no better than the men. even the white shirts.

no thanks. females to be chewed up aint the answer.

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