Sweden’s bizarre push for police women

Since living in Sweden for nearly three years, one of the most bizarre things I have observed is the push for police women officers by The Swedish Police Authority, Sweden’s official police organization, as well as Sweden’s national media outlets.

When a story about crime comes up in Swedish news, more often than not the video clips used will show a Swedish police woman. The story will feature various candid shots of police women directing traffic, speaking with the public or working alongside police men. When a police officer is interviewed, it is often a woman.

I recently picked up a recruitment magazine at a police department and was appalled by how often police women were featured in photographs. A woman was featured on the cover, and nearly a dozen women were featured in smaller photos throughout the magazine, almost the same number as police men in photos. One photo even featured an older woman.

I’m trying to wrap my head around the concept of encouraging women to join the police force. Why would women, who on average are weaker than men, be encouraged to partake in such dangerous work? I also question is the feminist agenda so strong in Sweden that it has cornered The Swedish Police Authority to not value the safety of society? At the end of the day a primary point of being a police officer is putting one’s life on the line to capture criminals.

Not only does having increasing numbers of women in the police force endanger women, but it also endangers the public. The video above, for example, shows three Swedish police women trying to detain one man. They fail at detaining the man and have such difficult time that a bystander even tries to help, and also fails. Why should a bystander be involved in detaining one man when three police officers are there? The man could have hurt them or the bystander. Based on the footage of this video, we don’t know if the criminal escaped and continued to be a menace to society.

I understand there are women who can overpower men, but on average this is not the case. I also understand that there are police women in the United States. But I have never seen a push like this for police women in the US.

Based on news updates I have read in the past, I am thinking this push for police women has to do with shortage of police officers. For some time now it has been noted that The Swedish Police Authority has had a staff shortage, and that police have actually been walking off the job because they feel they are unprepared and not paid enough for the new kind of crime that has emerged. Municipalities have even been paying private security companies to patrol their streets because they have found the federal police system to be unreliable.

There is also the underlying issue of Sweden’s “feminist society,” where efforts are made to present women as equally capable as men in all aspects. I’m still scratching my head how the feminist agenda could undermine the safety of society by pushing women into the police force.

This is not solely about women in the police force, it is about public safety. Sweden has been dealing with increase in crime since experiencing mass migration that peaked in 2015. There have been increasing reports of gang crime, shootings and sexual assault. It is important that the police department has officers who can detain criminals, lay down the law and protect society.

Lauren Ell is an American blogger born and raised in Southern California and is currently based in Sweden. She discusses Epilepsy, Politics and Fun. Professionally Ell is an Online Marketing Consultant and Virtual Assistant. She is also founder and president of Republican Atheists and GunSafetySociety.org. Connect with Lauren on Facebook and Twitter.