{"id":15315,"date":"2017-05-05T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T13:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=15315"},"modified":"2017-05-05T06:25:42","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T10:25:42","slug":"police-uniforms-arent-designed-for-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2017\/police-uniforms-arent-designed-for-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Uniforms Aren\u2019t Designed For Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/050517_1021_PoliceUnifo1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"455\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sydney Parker looked at police uniform design:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Women often find their police uniforms don&#8217;t fit them \u2013 from pants with crotches that are too low \u2013 to bulletproof vests that leave their sides and abdomens exposed.<\/li>\n<li>When one complained about the fit of a vest, the manufacturer fixed it by cutting out holes for the breasts. Upon further complaint, the manufacturer covered the holes with two sown on cones, Madonna style.<\/li>\n<li>Females typically have smaller belts, able to clip on fewer items. A drop holster around the leg expands their capacity but some departments block that because it looks too tactical.<\/li>\n<li>13% of law enforcement officers are women, and so police uniforms are typically designed with men in mind.<\/li>\n<li>This forces some women to pay out of their own pockets to have their clothes tailored to fit them better.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racked.com\/2016\/12\/27\/13955494\/police-uniforms-women-officers\">Racked<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sydney Parker looked at police uniform design: Women often find their police uniforms don&#8217;t fit them \u2013 from pants with crotches that are too low \u2013 to bulletproof vests that leave their sides and abdomens exposed. When one complained about the fit of a vest, the manufacturer fixed it by cutting out holes for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/050517_1021_PoliceUnifo1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15315"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15318,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15315\/revisions\/15318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}