This reporting person has noted that in a year of time there haven’t been shootings of unarmed Black men nor any incidences of excessive force by female police officers that made the national news. Is it possible that the current problem of race relations with law enforcement could be solved by only having frontline female law enforcement officers? No! This reporting person wrote a paper in 1982 that noted women are generally inferior physically to men and thereby, female police officers have to over escalate their use of force to affect their arrest of male suspects.
In this writer’s Sheriff’s Academy class, this writer demonstrated that the female cadets couldn’t subdue this writer without the use of lethal force. This was before the invention of tasers. In three demonstrations, I forced the females to pull the empty gun’s trigger. In the other demonstrations, this writer simulated choking the females out. So, why aren’t female police officers leading in the perception of excessive force? One factor is there are fewer female police officers. I have come to believe that there is an unconscious bias when it comes to the dispatching of officers to high threat calls. While there was no excuse for the police officers’ treatment in the George Floyd case, it is evidence of sexism in that police officers are being dispatched to high threat calls because they are men. Hence, male police officers are wrongly shouldering 99.9% of the perception of the use of excessive force, in this writer’s opinion. Also, if sexual bias wasn’t involved in the dispatching of police officers, it is likely that Mister Floyd would not have died. Me in Paris.
Published by Chief Editor, Sammy Campbell. Written by Mark Pullen.