The controversial move — which training Chief Juanita Holmes said will help more women applicants — sparked an intra-agency battle that Mayor Eric Adams had to settle.
. The department has also had trouble recruiting new cops, many of whom can find better paying jobs in Long Island or elsewhere in the country.
The requirement was also holding back otherwise-qualified candidates — especially women, who now make up about a fifth of the force, she said. “To date, the NYPD is in compliance with the physical fitness standards set by the [state’s Municipal Police Training Council],” the NYPD said. “The requirements to complete the daily physical training and tactics of our Police Academy, including running nearly every day, remains unchanged.”“No cop on patrol runs a mile and a half,” Holmes said.
“They’re the ones that did this, and they’re the ones who are going to have to live with the consequences of a department where the utterly unfit are all that’s left in the pool,” O’Donnell told The Post. “The requirements to complete the daily physical training and tactics of our Police Academy, including running nearly every day, remains unchanged.”The JST — a timed course developed in 2002 — is now the sole physical fitness hurdle for police hopefuls.
City Councilman Robert Holden also opposed ditching the run, and said he was worried the city was making it too easy to become a cop.The decision to further relax the NYPD fitness standards comes after officials replaced a fake 6-foot wall inside the Police Academy gym with a chain-link fence that’s easier to climb, according to official recruiting videos posted online.
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