What a shitshow.
The astonishing part is that anyone, anywhere, civilian or police, continues to think---to believe---that women have the same physical ability as men when it comes to that necessary part of police work.
Because in the uniform world, situations like that always happen sooner or later.
I saw it first hand. Took a job with a civilian PD after leaving the Marine Corps, and one of the street cops was a woman. In every case she was involved in where violence occurred, she was worse than useless. Worse because anyone who responded to the same call was obliged to protect her in addition to getting the job done. One time it very nearly got one of her "protectors" killed. (It was complete luck he didn't die, in fact. The 18-wheeler driver jerked the wheel at the last instant and missed him by just enough that he wasn't seriously injured)
Every man in the department knew the situation including the chief, but the mayor and police board refused to take action. The politics of willful self-delusion was too strong even back then.