[csdtx]

I highly doubt an intelligent psychopath who knows how to manipulate people and knows what to say can't get through this "comprehensive psychological evaluation". If you want to kill people you aren't going to tell others this in the open, or admit it on a test.

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.

[Fezzik]

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.

[tdeck]

This feels like it moves the goal post quite a bit from your original comment.