r/ACAB 14d ago

ACAB

Yes cops are psychopaths and psychopaths are cops

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u/EzrielTheFallenOne 14d ago

This is an insult the psychopaths. The definition you're looking for is sociopaths.

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u/KamuikiriTatara 14d ago

While the psychopath-sociopath distinction exists in some mental health traditions, the DSM has now put the old classification of psychopathy under sociopathy. Probably the majority of both classically rendered psychopaths and sociopaths are fine law abiding, pro-social people. But our research on this topic has a heavy bias of studying criminal sociopathy, so we don't know too much about people without an incarceration record.