{"id":62763,"date":"2015-11-12T10:28:05","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T15:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=62763"},"modified":"2015-11-12T10:28:05","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T15:28:05","slug":"colorado-springs-pd-fitness-test-ruled-discriminatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62763","title":{"rendered":"Colorado Springs PD Fitness test ruled discriminatory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/denver.cbslocal.com\/2015\/11\/10\/female-springs-officers-win-lawsuit-no-longer-have-to-take-physical-fitness-tests\/\">CBS Denver<\/a> reports that the Colorado District Federal Court ruled the Physical Fitness test to be discriminatory for 12 female officers who were reassigned to desk jobs because of their inability to pass the test;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The suit will now move to a federal court. Police Chief Pete Carey says he\u2019s disappointed, but will abide by the judge\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI very firmly stand behind physical fitness tests for our officers. I think what I\u2019m asking them to do is fair and my hope is a federal judge also agrees with this,\u201d Carey said.<\/p>\n<p>The police test consists of two running exams. Officers also have to do 52 push-ups in 2 minutes, and 45 sit-ups, also in 2 minutes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Unfortunately for the twelve women, most of the citizens that the TV station interviewed agreed that there should be a fitness standard for the department.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Many residents agreed with the chief, saying the requirements of the job demand fitness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remember years ago when there were no fitness standards, and they had some pretty hefty officers \u2026 male and female,\u201d said Piccin.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the article, all twelve women were over 40 years old. The chief says that he&#8217;ll comply with the judge&#8217;s orders and return the unfit officers to patrol duty. So, sleep well, Colorado Springs.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Old Trooper for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBS Denver reports that the Colorado District Federal Court ruled the Physical Fitness test to be &hellip; <a title=\"Colorado Springs PD Fitness test ruled discriminatory\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62763\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Colorado Springs PD Fitness test ruled discriminatory<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[227],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}