Most people who are attracted to law enforcement careers are sociopaths. Completely lacking in conscience, and unable to feel any empathy for fellow human beings, these monsters are given a badge and gun, and the government backing to impose their will on society. For many years we had intensive psychological tests in place to weed-out these undesirables but in the past two decades these tests have largely been replaced with less intensive ones that don't really predict future behavior problems.

One psychologist that developed new tests for the state of Indiana's law enforcement has stated that conventional tests such as the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory and Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-III that are routinely given to prospective applicants at Fortune 500 companies cannot be given to applicants of law enforcement agencies because too many subjects would register as psychopaths and thus be ineligible for employment.

What we are now seeing appears to indicate that psychological testing is being used to locate and hire sociopathic deviants rather than a tool to screen them out.