[From “Duke Asks: “Is It Time To Ban Girl Cops?””]

“Well, that’s very stylish.” So said tough silver-screen cop Dirty Harry Callahan, in the 1976 film The Enforcer, reacting to a feminist initiative. Its goal was, a woke female official informed, to “broaden the areas of participation for women in the police force”

This was, of course, art imitating life, and today we’re so stylish that it doesn’t even seem stylish anymore. It does, however, seem dangerous and foolhardy to many — and you can count Duke among them

I’ll let the reader figure out if this includes me. But right now I’m talking about Daily Caller senior editor Amber Duke. Fed up with the recent sad and tragic mob-attack spectacle in Cincinnati, Ohio, Duke asks, “Is It Time To Ban Girl Cops?”

My, my, now that is a third rail of American social commentary[…]
Yet the more fundamental matter is virtually never addressed here: Why have female cops in the first place? Why is this an imperative?

Equality?

That goes out the window as a principle (not as a ploy) because only men have to register for the draft. Only men are required to make the ultimate sacrifice for our nation. And if they can have responsibilities women don’t, they also can have opportunities women don’t. That’s called balance[…]
Then there was the beautiful little girl I saw in NYC in a police costume about 25 years ago. Was she attending a party?

Actually, she was a miniature cop. How effective could she have been? As a woman close to me once put it, “A man can command respect.” A woman, she said, is “ridiculous” in the law enforcement role. And, yes, image and psychological effect matter

Yet there’s a more tangible reality here, too, as police work often has a serious physical dimension. As to this, what is the best use of resources?[…]
Note, too, that virtually all departments have age limits, with applicants over 34-41 ineligible. Why can’t there be sex limits as well?