Re:What I Did After Police Killed My Son (2014)
by Fezzik on Thursday June 04, 2020 @01:18AM
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That’s not at all how psychological evaluations work - the participant is not asked “do you enjoy killing people?” It looks like about 90% of police officer jobs use psychological evaluations as a screening tool: https://www.thebalancecareers.com/psychological-exams-and-sc...
The effectiveness of such evaluations as screening tools can certainly be questioned, but given that you had no idea they were even used makes me think you probably have little-to-no-knowledge if how psych evals are conducted or how they may or may not be accurate.
And the notion that a psychopath would go through the substantial process of applying to be a police officer, then go through the academy, then go through a probationary period... just to kill another person, instead of just killing that person, is cooky. Obviously we have significant problems with the behaviors of some of the 650,000+ law enforcement officers in the US, but what your describing is not a part of that.
Unless those tests include CT scans of brain activity I wouldn't trust it. And that would only disqualify people born with some sort of problem, not people who develop it because of upbringing.
Also https://thefreethoughtproject.com/dad-confronts-cop-killed-h... mentions the officer that told the guy to shoot killed himself after the event. So it's likely this case might just be a freak accident due to negligence and poor training.