@wolfhnd, my friend, no excuses now, remember that "Women can do anything a man can do, do it better & do it in heels."

Don't need a lengthy list but mention a few things especially non-cops would miss.

@Penrodster 1. The way she positioned herself re: the number of people in the car!!!
2. Not calling for backup, as soon as she realized that the suspects had NO respect for the law or her authority!!!
3. Allowing an obviously crazy woman full freedom while handcuffing the male!!!
4. Not keeping an eye on the other passengers!!!
Like I said the list is long!!!!!!
Your profile indicates you have a college education, my education come from 30 years on the streets!!!!!
Been there, done that!!!!!!

I understand your perspective and I’ve heard and seen some of what you’ve described as well. However, I have had management positions within management teams that included women and found them to be very positive. Generally, in a three-person management team over 24/7 operations, I have found it far more valuable to have one of the managers being a woman, because they tend to see things that men tend to overlook. The men tend to be far more focused upon the efficient operations of the business whereas the women tend to make the job more enjoyable along the way (employee satisfaction awareness), which leads to improved employee retemtion and buy-in. Although most of our teams were men only, our best teams had this dynamic. (Two women and one man also seemed to run into the power struggle and backbiting issues to which you eluded).
I have heard the same complaints you described from our female employees and even from within my military organizations, but the situation in this video was handled in an exemplary fashion. I don’t think a lone male or female police officer of any race could have handled the nuances of this situation any better, except for the likelihood that a big, muscular man would be less likely to receive the threats from the guy in the back. However, chances are that the woman driving would have been more combative with a big male cop though; and he would be less likely to have been so observant of all the intricacies of the interpersonal signals being sent by so many people, but there’s no way of knowing how any given male counterpart would have interacted with this particular stop, not how those in the car would have interacted with him nor how the situation might have devolved, etc... All we can tell is that this lone female cop handled this potentially volatile encounter with exemplary professionalism. IMO

You are aware that the majority of police are men and the majority of violence is perpetrated by men; not to mention that men (in general) are stronger and more physically agressive than women, right.

If this cop didn’t restrain the man who said, “it’s fixin’ to become your problem”, she would have been a fool (potential physical altercation of which he warned her that could have devolved into multiple adversaries against one armed female cop - not a good outcome). If she had not forced him to sit down after restraining him, she would have been a fool (frivolous law suit that could have cost the taxpayer millions and this officer her job/career).

She used carrot and stick the entire time in an exemplary fashion: First she used gentle words of affirmation in response to the passengers’ cooperation/not becoming a threat and she sought to care for their need to get home. Then she shifted to firm words when the began to show resistance. Finally she used physical restraints when one began to threaten the safety of her and the camera man. She displayed impressive restraint and appropriate escalation/de-escalation skills, allowing one female officer to control a situation when there were 4 or 5 potential adversaries. As a retired military veteran with nearly 3 decades of service, I would have been proud to have served alongside her (and the vast majority of cops).

@Daveclark5 So he is not under arrest but is handcuffed and forced to sit down rather than they turn the flashing lights off. Interesting where you learnt law from. Probably CSI Miami. Do you understand rights. Freedom. Well if she fells threatened by one skinny little man why has she got this job. Secondary she has the gun. I am sure he is scared of her otherwise he would not let her handcuff his. Third I think that's these people are trouble makers. Just leave them alone and let the judge deal with them. Don't just use your power because you think it's the right thing to do. This is why people are getting sick of police. Finally my grandfather and uncle were police I know men are mostly police.

@Poncho69
I caught the under arrest interpretation as well. Although arrest literally means to stop, they were actually detaining them and didn’t “book”. I’m not sure if the police officer booked him later (after recording thing ended), but when he “uttered a threat against the officer, that was an offense that gave her the latitude to not only detain him, but to actually arrest and book him into jail while he awaited his day in court to determine if he would be sentenced to prison. Your suggestion that she should have turned off the flashing lights would have been against safety policies as those lights provide a warning to traffic. I have been detained and ticketed more than once and even once or twice when I was doing nothing wrong. However, no matter how irritated I feel at the detention, I have always chosen to be as respectful and no confrontational as possible. The closest I came to being aggressive like that driver and even the passenger was when I asked where I would go to fight the ticket. When I was wrong (eg. exceeding the speed limit), I chose to be polite and cooperative. I let them know I was unaware the speed limit had changed and admitted that I was wrong and would need to pay closer attention. There have even been a couple of times where a confrontational police officer, faced with my acceptance of culpability and courteous behavior, chose to forego the ticket and give me a warning. When I missed the date for renewing my mother’s plates, I simply had to admit I screwed up and pay the ticket.

Secondarily, yup, she had a gun, but wisely and skillfully handled the situation without needing to use it or her taser or her pepper spray or her billy stick. There was no violence because this skillful officer of the law handled it well in a situation involving multiple threats (who could have been armed. If a man were in the same position, he may have handled it the same or he may have handled it different. He may have had equally positive results without violence or somebody may have been hurt or killed (including the male officer). It’s easy to backseat drive when you’re sitting I. The safety of your own home behind a keyboard. These brave, honorable people put their lives on the line to ensure you have the luxury of sitting in the safety of your home or neighborhood. They do it while being undermanned, under-appreciated and under constant attack from those they are trying to protect and to serve.

I was in the military when people hated the military and I understand how it feels, but we continue to do the right thing because those we protect need us to do the right thing. Sometimes that meant making mistakes or having to make others uncomfortable with our very presence, but we did what we needed to do to the best of our ability. Plenty of cops have bad motives and bad techniques. Blame them for what they do wrong, not those like this officer that do everything right and by the books.

BTW, when I joined the army, it was mostly men and I didn’t feel very good about some of the women, but I didn’t fault them for doing well because i didn’t like women serving in that position. I judged their actions and their results just like I would those of a man.

I’ve spent enough time discussing this issue, so please don’t be offended if I do t respond to any more arguments on the issue or insults on my intelligence or reasoning skills. It is not meant as an affront. I simply choose to stop spinning my tires after this final attempt at reasoning with you and answering your recriminations.