The answer to Steve Sailer's question [1]below "Why do we have “diminutive [2]” lady cops anyway? ", is that it's the fault of the courts and the $PLC [3]. As I wrote in Guilty: The SPLC And The Atlanta Courtroom Massacre [4]
Here’s the rest of the story: the policy of having short females as police officers is thanks to our old friends at the Southern Poverty Law Center [5]—always concerned about the faintest hint of “discrimination,” never concerned about the public interest. [6]
Here's a list of the various decisions that led to female police officers being required by law to do the same job as an officer literally twice their size: Decision with Regard to Women, Affirmative Action and Law Enforcement [7].
One of the leading decisions in the SPLC's campaign against common sense was the abolition of "Strength/physical fitness tests and requirements" for police officers in Dothard v. Rawlinson [8] (1977).
The SPLC supported the 5'3", 115 lb, Dianne Rawlinson [9] in her attempt to become a correctional employee in Alabama:
“At trial, the Law Center argued that the height and weight requirements had no actual relationship to the job requirements, and 33% of women would be excluded from employment as prison guards and state troopers by the statutory height requirements and 22% by the minimum weight requirements.”
See also Civil Rights Law Doesn’t Care If You Die [10], for an examination of the larger question involved.
Links:
[1] http://blog.vdare.com/archives/2009/03/02/petite-cops/
[2] http://isteve.blogspot.com/2005/03/real-life-babes-not-as-buttkicking-as.html
[3] http://blog.vdare.com/archives/2008/12/08/the-splc-rolling-in-it/
[4] http://www.vdare.com/fulford/050322_splc.htm
[5] http://www.vdare.com/fulford/southern_poverty_center.htm
[6] http://www.vdare.com/sailer/050227_segregation.htm
[7] http://www.geocities.com/capitolhill/8512/decide.html
[8] http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0433_0321_ZC.html
[9] http://www.splcenter.org/legal/docket/files.jsp?cdrID=7&sortID=0
[10] http://www.vdare.com/fulford/080423_fulford_file.htm