Op Ed on police brutality

The op-ed "How more female police officers would help stop police brutality", by Kathrine Spillar argues that there is a easy way to lower the number of police brutality incidents and that is by simply enforcing more women as police officers. Spillar claims that women are better at handling dangerous encounters because of their superior communication skills and the way women treat their job, which is in a less authoritative way. Spillar uses previous studies to show that over the years women police officers have been involved in less police misconduct incidents because of their ability to prevent situations to escalate and thus making those situations nonviolent.

This op-ed is arguing that the only way to stop police brutality is by pushing aside traditional gender roles and letting women work on the front line. Strength and force and the qualities that make a police officer great but having the communication skills to prevent violent situations is what makes a officer a good one. Until police departments are able to ignore the old notion that women can't be effective police officers the ongoing issue of police brutality cases will go on.

                      Work Cited 

Spillar, Katherine. "How More Female Police Officers Would Help Stop Police Brutality." Washington Post. The Washington Post, 2 July 2015. Web. 28 Feb. 2016. <https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/07/02/how-more-female-police-officers-would-help-stop-police-brutality/>.