More Female Officers Defuse Violent Policing Style

[niyad]

(and waiting for the usual suspects in 3. . . 2. . . 1. . . )
More Female Officers Defuse Violent Policing Style


Women on a police force are less likely than male coworkers to use excessive and deadly force, studies show, relying more on interpersonal skills. If policymakers knew the data, says one advocate, they'd "go on a hiring spree and hire more women."





(WOMENSENEWS)--Would the encounter between Eric Garner, who died last summer in Staten Island after being put in chokehold, and police officers have ended differently if a female officer handled the situation? Would Michael Brown, shot by a policeman in Ferguson, Mo., last August, still be alive if a female police officer had been on the scene?

Interviews with two women integrally involved with the question, along with a body of research data, suggest yes. Only 5% of citizen complaints of excessive force and 2% of sustained allegations of excessive force in large agencies involve female officers.

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Katherine Spillar, executive director of the Feminist Majority Foundation, based in Arlington, Va., strongly believes both situations could have ended differently. "The encounters wouldn't have ended in all likelihood in the death of the citizens," she said in a phone interview, adding that male officers tend to lean toward a paramilitary style of policing. Women, she said, are better at deescalating a potentially violent situation.

Spillar echoes several years of studies that indicate that women on a police force are less likely than male coworkers to use excessive and deadly force. They are also less likely to be involved in fights or acts of aggression on the job. Female officers rely more on interpersonal skills and deescalate potentially violent situations more often than men.

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http://womensenews.org/story/law/150127/more-female-officers-defuse-violent-policing-style

[Downwinder]

1. I can't see Seattle Officer Cynthia Whitlatch, "put down

the golf club", defusing a situation.

[niyad]

2. like I said, right on schedule. did she kill anyone?

[niyad]

3. nowhere in the article does it say NO WOMEN officers ever commit crimes of violence, as

a matter of fact, it includes the SMALL number of women who do. but hey, keep trying.

[Downwinder]

4. Women can buy into the authoritarian mindset as well as men.

Since there is no data on killer cops there is no data as to whether female cops are more or less likely to kill.

[niyad]

5. do try reading the article. as I said, keep trying.

[Downwinder]

6. After they have gone through the training and selection

process, I don't think that a female fighter pilot would be any more or less likely to drop a bomb than their male counterpart. I think that law enforcement is the same. The training and selection process is designed to weed out those who, male or female, do not fit the authoritarian image.

[niyad]

7. do try reading the article.

[Ichingcarpenter]

8. If your IQ is above 100 you can't get in

doesn't matter what gender

I read the article but it doesn't solve the problem

the female SS guards come to miind.

I said better screening in your other thread........