Ann Coulter On The Weaknesses Of Female Police Officers

by John Hawkins | March 16, 2005 9:33 pm

Don’t let Susan Estrich or any of the caterwauling feminist professors at Harvard see the statistics on women policemen in the latest Ann Coulter column[1] or it’ll be yap, yap, yap =D:

“The inestimable economist John Lott has looked at the actual data. (And I’ll give you the citation! John R. Lott Jr., “Does a Helping Hand Put Others at Risk? Affirmative Action, Police Departments and Crime,” Economic Inquiry, April 1, 2000.)

It turns out that, far from “de-escalating force” through their superior listening skills, female law enforcement officers vastly are more likely to shoot civilians than their male counterparts. (Especially when perps won’t reveal where they bought a particularly darling pair of shoes.)

Unable to use intermediate force, like a bop on the nose, female officers quickly go to fatal force. According to Lott’s analysis, each 1 percent increase in the number of white female officers in a police force increases the number of shootings of civilians by 2.7 percent.

Adding males to a police force decreases the number of civilians accidentally shot by police. Adding black males decreases civilian shootings by police even more. By contrast, adding white female officers increases accidental shootings. (And for my Handgun Control Inc. readers: Private citizens are much less likely to accidentally shoot someone than are the police, presumably because they do not have to approach the suspect and make an arrest.)

In addition to accidentally shooting people, female law enforcement officers are also more likely to be assaulted than male officers – as the whole country saw in Atlanta last week. Lott says: “Increasing the number of female officers by 1 percentage point appears to increase the number of assaults on police by 15 percent to 19 percent.”

In addition to the obvious explanations for why female cops are more likely to be assaulted and to accidentally shoot people – such as that our society encourages girls to play with dolls – there is also the fact that women are smaller and weaker than men.”

These statistics are not going to be a shock to anyone who doesn’t put pushing a feminist agenda ahead of acknowledging some of the obvious differences between the sexes…

Endnotes:
  1. latest Ann Coulter column: http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43343

Source URL: https://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/ann-coulter-on-the-weaknesses-of-female-police-officers/