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Originally Posted by bronco67
Can't they psychologically screen police recruits to weed out sociopaths? Or do they already attempt to do that?
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There is a psych screening, but I'm not sure it means much. Here are two examples of the police system at work.
I know a lot of cops. A few of my best friends are cops and through them I have gotten to know many other cops. One friend of mine was trying to become a reserve officer. She had to go through a psych evaluation. She had recently gone through a shitty divorce and was getting her life back together after it. She was told she failed the evaluation because of this. Meanwhile, an officer my friend works with knew he was doing shit that would come back to bite him in the ass so he tried to get a job at a few different departments. He passed the interview process, but failed that department's psych evaluation so they didn't hire him. After this information is made public, the department he was working for kept him on and he continued to be a cop for another few years before all his bullshit finally caught up to him.