From the cited article...

... The 2011 contract prohibited officers from ingesting or possessing any anabolic steroid or other forms of human growth hormones without a medical prescription. However, the old standard didn't require officers to run any such prescription by their NYPD district surgeon before starting to use it.

The new protocol -- which was enacted on Dec. 26, 2023, and described in an internal memo reviewed by The News as a "zero tolerance drug policy" -- beefs up the old rule by affirming that officers must "immediately notify their district surgeon" of any steroid prescription they receive and provide "all supporting medical documentation" to the surgeon backing up the need for the drug. ...

I do not see why this new protocol is a problem. That is, aside from the use by the NY Post of "beefs up" to describe it.

@#3 ... You have never encountered a cop on steroids? ...

No. The last time I had an interaction with a police officer, he was asking me about a human compassion issue for a neighbor.

But I do not live in NYC.