Are the low fitness standards an explanation?

About this episode

The episode discusses the implications of low fitness standards in law enforcement and their potential impact on public safety and officer performance.

There has been a lot of political discussions around the deployment of ICE and DHS through the US, with protests and interactions with officers leading to less than desired responses by some of the DHS and ICE personal. Some want to blame it on lack of training and teaching, but what about the laxity of fitness standards. Is having low fitness a potential avenue for explanation and a way to solve some of these issues. Well, let's talk about that... Please make sure to follow our work on: YouTube @ https://www.youtube.com/@Scientific.Health.Education Substack @ https://jeclark.substack.com Instagram @ https://www.instagram.com/sci.health.performance/ Threads @ https://www.threads.net/@sci.health.performance Bluesky @ scientific-health.bsky.social If you want to support what is being published, please make sure to subscribe and become a supporter on the substack .

People in this episode

Host: Scientific Health: Education and Human Performance

Topics covered

• fitness standards
• law enforcement
• political discussions
• training
• public safety

Keywords

• fitness standards
• law enforcement
• DHS
• ICE
• training
• public safety
• politics

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: ICE, DHS

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