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Originally Posted by bronco67
Is there some kind of test the government can give police recruits to make sure they're not hiring sociopaths? In an office job, there's ways of dealing with a sociopath...but when they have a gun and the law on their side it becomes a problem.
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There is, but it is a flawed system. You have to pass a psych eval in order to become a cop, however, there is no federal or even statewide guidelines for these tests. Let me give you an example. In my town, we have a cop who applied for a job with a different city. They agreed to hire him, but he had to go for a psych eval and he failed it for being too unstable so they didn't hire him. However, the police department in my town kept him on and didn't make him take another evaluation. Meanwhile, there was an officer who was hired by my city, but failed the psych eval because she had recently gotten divorced and they thought she was too distracted by that to be a cop.
So a recent divorce is a reason to disqualify you from the job, but being considered too unstable by another department's psychologist is just fine.