Metro Nashville Police Department on Tuesday announced the department made new changes in a bid to recruit more female officers, including lactation rooms for nursing police officers, flexible schedules to better accommodate families and new physical requirements for officers that are more accommodating to women.
The department is driving up its recruitment of women in a bid to comply with the 30×30 initiative joined by Police Chief John Drake in 2021. The effort, which is tied to Hungarian-American financier George Soros, seeks to compel police departments to ensure 30 percent of officers are female by 2030.
MNPD Commander Tiffany Gibson discussed the changes to WSMV 4, explaining she views the potential for 30 percent of MNPD officers to be female by 2030 as “definitely attainable.” Gibson is the first woman to run the Metro Police Department Training Academy.
Among new changes to the MNPD and its recruiting process to attract female officers include, according to WSMV 4, “Lactation rooms for nursing moms, more flexible schedules and physical test modifications” that “help attract new recruits, especially women.”
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The Nashville police department is dropping physical ability tests because they want to arbitrarily boost the percentage of females in the department from 11% to 30%.
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Gibson told the outlet that MNPD is also contemplating sponsoring “our own childcare facility,” which she suggested “would be really helpful for females definitely, but also for families in general at the department.”
The 30×30 website claims that women should be hired for 30 percent of police positions because they are less likely to use force, are named in fewer complaints, are perceived as being more compassionate, see better outcomes for crime victims, and “[m]ake fewer discretionary arrests, especially for non-white residents.”
The initiative is a creation of the Policing Project at the New York University School of Law, which in turn receives funding from a number of far-left organizations, including Soros’ Open Societies Foundation. The Policing Project also receives funding from Amazon and Microsoft.
After The Tennessee Star uncovered the connections between the 30×30 initiative and Soros in 2022 and subsequently questioned MNPD about whether it would hire based on merit instead of gender, a department spokesman said MNPD considers “a goal of 30 percent women by 2030 is something to which Nashville should aspire, regardless of who thought of the concept.”
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Tom Pappert is the lead reporter for The Tennessee Star, and also reports for The Georgia Star News, The Virginia Star, and the Arizona Sun Times. Follow Tom on X/Twitter. Email tips to [email protected].
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