Half a Cop?

 

My father was a NYC Police Officer as was his father. Sixty years total between them. Back in those days police officers had to be 6 feet tall or taller, physically well fit, and if you look at the above they did not carry nearly 100 pounds of gear, just a 38 and a night stick.

I had the opportunity to pass thorough the Times Square subway station yesterday and I saw about a dozen NYC Police Officers. Average height 5' 5" and average BMI 32+. Add the equipment and they looked like large fire hydrants. Worse yet they looked at best like "half a cop" as my sister once noticed. They waddled as they clustered in groups of 3+ while checking out their smart phones most likely on social media. 

The NYC police have truly fallen into disrepair. Take some felon, there is likely no way the half a cop could catch up wit them and worse could stop them. Perhaps that is the why the Courts and DA have become so lenient. 

I think it would help to return to more fit police officers. Also it would help if they did policing. Back in the "old days" as I learned from a mass of POs one looked at people as they passed by. What type of shoes, did the trouser match the shoes, were their eyes shifty, etc. Then is one was concerned follow up, immediately. But alas that is no longer policing, it I guess is that we are supposed to feel safe with all those blue half cops.