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randome

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8. 'Badly outnumbered by the mentally ill'?

Reply to JFN1 (Original post)

Sun Jul 15, 2012, 09:40 PM

Jul 2012

Do you believe that or is that just hyperbole? If the former, I'd like to see the statistics but since you are also saying we don't know who the psychopaths are, I guess it's the latter.

Every city manages their own police force. The Justice Department is not going to wrest control of America.

Could better training including psychological testing be a good thing? Absolutely. But, again, it's up to each municipality to determine that for their own citizens.

And I don't see massive numbers of people demanding it.

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Sociopaths And Psychopaths: We Need To Screen Cops Nationwide - NOW. [View all] JFN1 Jul 2012 OP

The problem is the psychological screening tests are expensive and snappyturtle Jul 2012 #1

Justice Department can and should do it. This should not be handled locally. JFN1 Jul 2012 #3

Sorry but the Justice Department would never do this on a national basis. snappyturtle Jul 2012 #22

What brought this on? virgogal Jul 2012 #2

Last week I saw the video of that mentally ill guy being beaten to death by cops JFN1 Jul 2012 #5

If you haven't noticed lately, unwarranted violence among police officers is increasing Canuckistanian Jul 2012 #9

"there are psychologically healthy cops"? The same ones covering for the Sociopaths And Psychos? AnotherMcIntosh Jul 2012 #4

Agreed... Comrade_McKenzie Jul 2012 #6

Maybe you won't get rich, but low wage? nobodyspecial Jul 2012 #15

Not just those public servants, many, many jobs should have screening for psychopaths. applegrove Jul 2012 #7

'Badly outnumbered by the mentally ill'? randome Jul 2012 #8

As far as I know, there are no such numbers available. JFN1 Jul 2012 #11

ALL anecdotal. nobodyspecial Jul 2012 #13

This is not a research project. I'm not "sampling" for scientific theory or statistical analysis. JFN1 Jul 2012 #20

In Missouri it takes less training... rwsanders Jul 2012 #10

Any proof of this? nobodyspecial Jul 2012 #12

You are aware of course, that ALL departments do that screening nadinbrzezinski Jul 2012 #14

Mental Health should be available to everyone it is part and parcel of Healthcare. Tuesday Afternoon Jul 2012 #16

Overusing and inaccurately using clinical language is the worst kind of hyperbole loyalsister Jul 2012 #17

The vast majority pf cops in America are NOT psychologically screened. JFN1 Jul 2012 #21

What do you think about the Stanford prison experiment? nt PETRUS Jul 2012 #18

What about the sociopathic lawyers and judges I worked for?? Manifestor_of_Light Jul 2012 #19

Some forces do. laundry_queen Jul 2012 #23

Psychopathy is NOT mental illness Boogercat Jun 2014 #24