Commentary – Cops Who Can’t Fight
This is going to be an unpopular opinion since most will see it through the lens of their own bias, prejudices or politics.
I don’t believe folks who can’t fight should be hired as police officers. Basically ever. But because the internet is ridiculous let me illustrate some specific fighting standards:
1. If you are 5 foot nothing, built like a fireplug and wrestled in high school, you can probably demonstrate enough skill to win a fight as a cop.
2. If you are 125lb soaking wet, but have the BJJ skill of someone like Mighty Mouse, you can probably be a cop.
3. If you are at least 6 feet tall and 200lbs, and have completed some basic self-defense, fighting, training and FITNESS standards, you can probably be a cop.
But at some point we are going to have to STOP lying to ourselves that hiring folks who can’t physically fight is a good idea or that it is even working. It’s not.
Subjects get hurt or killed. Cops get hurt (frequently leading to workman’s comp and disability retirements) and killed. And the general public gets hurt and killed.
This video shows what? 4? 5 female police officers? Doing what? Standing on tasers and pepper spray. And when that doesn’t work, it instantly goes to guns. Why? Because the Sisterhood-of-the-Traveling-Police-Pants can’t fight.
Period.
They. Can’t. Fight.
Right about now someone, somewhere will feel inclined to drop such names as Cynthia Rothrock, Kathy Long, Ronda Rousey or Chris Cyborg.
Great. You just listed exceptions that PROVE the rule, not dispel it. Let’s have a PD full of roided out, female clown shows. Fine by me. But…understand…even then they will have shorter careers than the average hire: Either by getting seriously injured more frequently (workman’s comp), or aging out of the profession much faster than their male colleagues.
Not politically correct you say? Sexist even? Think about it. Take your average 48 year old male police officer. He may not be as good as he once was, but he’s good once as he ever was. Or at least according to the country singer of that song.
Now take your average 48 year old female police officer. How many of them are good fighters? How many of them were ever good fighters right out of the academy? Precious few.
What am I getting at? Easy…and we all know it. Females are more prone to physical injuries than men engaged in the same physical activity. And that’s when we control for being young. As women age, their ability to take punishment, maintain physical standards or recover from injuries degrades exponentially as they get older.
Look at the 4 female officers that I can, for sure, see in the video. But look at it from the perspective of city resources. The average paycheck for each officer is around $75,000. Figure payroll taxes and overhead (health insurance, life insurance, dental, public retirement system, etc, etc) for those officers is another $25,000 a year – being conservative.
So what you see is AT LEAST $400,000 of city resources to take a physically fit, military aged male into custody. A taser was deployed. Pepper spray was deployed. And one officer immediately torched off a round. I am not debating the decision to shoot. I am pointing out the NEED to shoot.
In what rainbow coalition, pink-pony-show command staff is this engagement considered a success?! All that money spent on a lack of skill which just increases the exposure to costing the city more money: lawsuits, gunfire, and an injured officer. A female officer.
You want to take any bets on the over/under that while her injury isn’t “life threatening” the injury may very well be serious enough to take 6 months to recover? Or be functionally crippled and go on city books as a disability case and medically retired?
Even more money lost.
Let’s rewind the tape. Pick any of the qualified examples I gave above and replace them with the Pants Ladies: 4 Mighty Mouses. 4 Fireplugs. 4. 6 foot tall, 200lb, non-fat bodies. This ends differently. No gun-fire. Probably no pepper spray (The spray sucks in “pig-piles” BTW). And maybe, just maybe a funny video showing 4 qualified cops putting the whoop-ass on Mr. Miami 2026 with laughs and atta-boys at the end.
But…nooooooo….We gotta pretend this worked out. A female offer was injured. Pepper spray slimed all over the place. A business is now a deadly force, crime scene instead of just another cleared call. And not to mention GUNFIRE that could have hurt who knows how many people?
Never mind the reputational hit both this PD and the place of business take with the public. Either it’s clown-car PD town, or the common folks saying, “Ewww…I don’t want to stop by that business. They just had a shooting”.
This is stupid.
So stupid let me say it again for the people in the back. THIS. IS. STUPID. No more cops who can’t fight. Period.
Sincerely,
Marky
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