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Criminology Researchers Explain Why It's Harder for Women Police Recruits to Pass Fitness Tests in New Jersey
October 21, 2019
EWING, New Jersey, Oct. 21 -- The College of New Jersey issued the following news:

How many pushups does it take to become a police officer?

That's a harder question than it seems, as some TCNJ criminology students discovered when they started asking last spring, and the answers they found were newsworthy enough to land on the front page of USA Today.

They learned there's no one answer, and it may depend on what state you're doing the pushups . . .

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