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I don't know about today but the Marine Corps of the 1950s did not permit Woman Marines to serve in combat line companies. The reason for that is thorough testing had determined that women are neither physically nor psychologically capable of enduring the rigors of sustained combat conditions.In her situation, what would be the reason you would think a person would not show his/her hands?
Where the civilian police occupation is concerned, while there are exceptions ordinary women are generally not capable of physically restraining ordinary men. That is a simple, natural fact. And for that reason female police officers should not be assigned to certain patrol functions, nor should they be assigned to patrol alone.
I know nothing more about the topic situation than is described here. But it readily occurs to me that if the cop had been a physically adequate male rather than a female he might not have needed to use his firearm to restrain that subject.
I often watch the tv ride-along documentary, COPS in which I have seen more than one example of female police officers being tossed around by male subjects they were trying to arrest -- and were it not for the intervention of male officers there is no question that these females would have been disarmed and completely overcome. In several other situations the female officer's first resort was to draw her firearm.
If I were a supervisory police official, unless a subordinate female officer could demonstrate exceptional physical competence I would not permit her assignment to ordinary patrol functions, or to patrol in certain high-risk areas, or to patrol alone. There are many other functions which female police officers are better suited to.
On COPS I've also seen many examples of male police officers who simply are not physically suited to the police occupation. So it's not only women cops who are not up to the task.
Good points and apt to my question earlier. In fact, knowing what can happen in this type of situation, she may even have fired by accident and nervousness.