Why are American cops allowed to be morbidly obese?

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• protist@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Police departments in general have severe problems, but I encounter police often in my work and can honestly say I’ve never encountered an officer for my city’s dept who’d qualify as morbidly obese

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• HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Since you’re using terminology tied to BMI, it is important to note that it’s use for police officers doesn’t accurately reflect reality.

  A lot of cops take their fitness regime seriously, including building a lot of muscle mass. If you have significant muscle mass, you are going to be considered obese or morbidly obese per BMI even though they are in great physical shape. This would be true for other fields like firefighters.

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  • Schlemmy@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Exact. I started working out to lose weight and turned from slightly over weight to obese. I lost a decent amount of fat but gained a lot of weight building up muscle mass. 12 kg in about a year. BMI sucks.

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  • snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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    • HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I didn’t have context for your comment and I didn’t say all cops. From what I read, you could have been pulling a stat without context.

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• 13igTyme@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I’ve definitely seen fat police officers in other countries.

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• RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I mean, where are they? Most cops I’ve seen personally wouldn’t even qualify as regular obese, let alone morbidly.

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  • BassTurd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    In a small Midwest town, if the police force has more than 3 members, I bet half of them are classified as obese.

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• SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Becauase people who are sensible and emotionally stable enough to be healthy probably aren’t stupid or malicious enough to be cops.

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• Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I totally agree with your thought here, I’ve thought the same thing many times. I’ve see many very overweight cops stopping at gas stations and whatnot.

  How can these guys chase down an assailant? Cops should be required to be fit. I’d say they need to prove weekly they can run a mile in like 8mins? Faster? Then, once per month they need to prove they can do a 5 mile, like 45-50 mins? Seems fair.

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• Kaboom@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Beyond what others have said, different departments have different policies. They’re usually pretty similar to each other, but a lot don’t explicitly lay out fitness requirements.

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