1. What is Ms. Roman’s employment background?
Ms. Roman's employment background is that she's been a police officer for 25 years.
2. What statistics from police academies in the state of New Jersey were alarming to Ms. Roman?
The statistics from the police academies in the state of New Jersey that were alarming to Ms. Roman are the rates between 65 and 80 percent of women are failing due to the physical fitness test.
3. What was a major reason for women failing at the police academies?
A major reason for women failing at the police academies are recruits needing to pass the fitness exam within 10 short workouts and only have three weeks to try to pass due to a new policy.
4. What had these police recruits been required to do in order to reach the point in the process that allowed them to take the physical fitness test?
Police recruits were required to pass very lengthy background checks, medical exams, psychological exams, and clearly quit any other job.
5. What data does Ms. Roman share about women serving as police officers? What data does she share about women working as police chiefs?
The data Ms. Roman shares about women serving as police officers is that less than 13% of the police officers hadn't changed much in the past 20 years. Only 3% of women were police chiefs in 2013.
6. How are other countries doing when it comes to female representation in the police force compared to the US?
When female representation in the police force compares to the US some countries have nearly twice as many women police officers.
7. According to research, what are some positive results to having female police officers on the force?
Positive results to having female police officers on the force include female police officers tending to have more of a positive influence, great job performance, trustworthiness, and fairness in the police force.
8. What does Ms. Roman define as the main problem with the different policy agencies and their standards?
Ms. Roman defines that the main problem in different policy agencies and their standards is that the the differing policy agencies and their standards is that the main focus is on physical strength.
9. What should police academies also focus on, aside from physical strength, when recruiting officers?
Other than physical strength police academies should focus on problem-solving skills, community policing, and interpersonal communication skills.
10. What are some ways to encourage more female recruits to join the police force? How must the testing process be changed to ensure women are not unfairly excluded from the force?
Some ways to encourage more female recruits to join the police force could be good salary package and suitable environments. When it comes to good salaries for the police force and an environment that feels safe and suitable with lack of sexual harassments then more women will join, some just cause they want to not for the "encouragement". The testing process could be conducted under fair supervision in order to ensure that women are not being unfairly justed from the force.
