Update: Detroit

In a cascading email that worked its way through the Detroit Police Department, the height, weight and bra size of around twenty female officers was unintentionally circulated throughout the department and ultimately leaked to the Detroit media outlets.

This caused a big brouhaha (or brahaha) throughout the Police Department and Detroit TV and radio stations and the Internet. What was behind the email? The measurements were taken so the female officers could be properly fitted with bulletproof vests.

I’m familiar with cop humor and I’m sure this made the department locker room and watering hole rounds, but it points to a much more serious matter, and it’s not based on sex. Thirty people were shot last weekend in Detroit, and thirty the weekend before that. That’s nothing to laugh about. All humor aside, possessing a properly fitting bulletproof vest can save an officer’s life.

In many areas of Detroit gun violence is out of control. Standing in the line of fire is the risk DPD police officers take every day when they go to work, male or female. I hope their vests fit to a tee.