1、翻了个译，MTI专业辅导Ive been a police officer in an urban cityfor nearly 25 years.Thats crazy, right?And in that time, Ive served in every rank,from police officer to police chief.A few years ago, I noticed something alarming.Starting in 2014,I started monitoring recruitsas they cycled through police academ
2、ies in the state of New Jersey,and I found that women were failing at rates between 65 and 80 percent,due to varying aspects of the physical fitness test.I learned that a change in policynow required recruits to pass the fitness examwithin 10 short workout sessions.This had the greatest impact on wo
3、men.The change meant that recruits had about three weeksout of a five-month-long academyto pass the fitness exam.This just didnt make sense, though.Police agencies and police recruitshad made huge investments to get those recruits into the academy.Police recruits had passed lengthy background checks
4、,they had passed medical and psychological exams,they had quit their jobs.And many had spent more than 2,000 dollars in fees and equipmentjust to get kicked out within the first three weeks? The dire situation in New Jerseyled me to examine the status of women in policingacross the United States.I f
5、ound that women make up less than 13 percent of police officers.A number that hasnt changed much in the past 20 years.And they make up just three percent of police chiefs as of 2013,the last time the data was collected.We know that we can improve those rates.Other countries like Canada, Australia an
6、d the UKhave nearly twice the amount of policewomen.And New Zealand is steadily marching towards their goalof recruit gender parity by 2021.Other countries are actively workingto increase the number of women in policing,because they know of a vast body of research evidence,spanning more than 50 year
7、s,detailing the advantages to women in policing.From that research,we know that policewomen are less likely to use forceor to be accused of excessive force.We know that policewomen are less likely to be named in a lawsuitor a citizen complaint.We know that the mere presence of a policewomanreduces t
8、he use of force among other officers.And we know that policewomen are met with the same rates of forceas their male counterparts, and sometimes more,and yet theyre more successfulin defusing violent or aggressive behavior overall.So there are vast advantages to women in policing,and were losing them
9、 to arbitrary fitness standards.The problem is,the United States has nearly 18,000 police agencies -18,000 agencies with wildly varying fitness standards.We know that a majority of academies rely on a masculine ideal of policingthat works to decrease the number of women in policing.These types of ac
10、ademies overemphasize physical strength,with much less attention spent to subjects like community policing,problem-solvingand interpersonal communication skills.This results in training that does not mirror the realities of policing.Physical agility is but a small component of police work.Much of an
11、 officers day is spent mediating interpersonal conflicts.Thats the reality of policing.We can reduce the disparity in policingby changing exams that produce disparate outcomes.The federal courts have stated that men and womensimply are not physiologically the samefor the purposes of physical fitness
12、 programs.And thats based on science.Respected institutions that law enforcement deeply respects,like the FBI, the US Marshals Service,the DEA and even the US military -they rigorously test fitness programs to ensure they measure fitnesswithout gender-disparate outcomes.Why is that?Because recruitin
13、g is expensive.They want to recruit and retain qualified candidates.You know what else the research finds?Well-trained women are as capable as their male counterpartsin overall fitness,but more importantly, in how they police.The law-enforcement communityis admittedly experiencing a recruitment cris
14、is.Yet, if they truly want to increase the number of applicants, they can.We can easily recruit more womenand reap all those research benefitsby training well-qualified candidates to pass validated, work-related,physiologically-based fitness exams,as required by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.We can increase the number of women,we can reduce that gender disparity,by simply changing exams that produce disparate outcomes.We have the tools.We have the research, we have the science, we have the law.This, my friends, should be a very easy fix. Thank you.翻了个译，MTI专业辅导
