That’s why I was saying pepper spray and taser but yes, that’s an issue as well. I wouldn’t necessarily call it a confidence problem, though; I would call it a sudden, reality-enforced assessment of the lack of tools available to a given female officer, performed far later than it should have been, to the detriment of everyone involved.
Men and women, generally speaking, have entirely different risk aversion profiles. Testosterone is directly implicated. Men also have considerably faster reaction times, better spatial reasoning and coordination, and considerably higher upper body strength for a reason. This isn't the result of a lack of life experience, this is the result of thousands of years of evolution.
Outliers exist, but generally speaking, women are not suited to such roles.
I watch a lot of police body cam footage. I would say 75% of female cops are worthless and seem to panic when in a fight, pull their sidearm and shoot when they thought they had a Tazer, or just freeze up like the cop here. The other 24% seem reasonably competent. The reality is we only need female cops to pat down women to prevent lawsuits.
That was why I disagreed with the word “confidence.” It makes it sound like they could be effective in a physical confrontation if only they tried, but the reality is that in most cases, they probably can’t.
That’s why I was saying pepper spray and taser but yes, that’s an issue as well. I wouldn’t necessarily call it a confidence problem, though; I would call it a sudden, reality-enforced assessment of the lack of tools available to a given female officer, performed far later than it should have been, to the detriment of everyone involved.
I think that's overly optimistic.
Men and women, generally speaking, have entirely different risk aversion profiles. Testosterone is directly implicated. Men also have considerably faster reaction times, better spatial reasoning and coordination, and considerably higher upper body strength for a reason. This isn't the result of a lack of life experience, this is the result of thousands of years of evolution.
Outliers exist, but generally speaking, women are not suited to such roles.
I watch a lot of police body cam footage. I would say 75% of female cops are worthless and seem to panic when in a fight, pull their sidearm and shoot when they thought they had a Tazer, or just freeze up like the cop here. The other 24% seem reasonably competent. The reality is we only need female cops to pat down women to prevent lawsuits.
That was why I disagreed with the word “confidence.” It makes it sound like they could be effective in a physical confrontation if only they tried, but the reality is that in most cases, they probably can’t.