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Russia's Cops: Psychopaths Or Alcoholics?

By The Daily Dish
Jan 24 2010, 3:03 AM ET

No, that's not just me. It's a headline in Moscow:

Nearly one in every three policemen in Russia is likely a psychopath or an alcoholic, the result, a leading specialist says, of the attraction that police service has for such people, the end of psychological screening of applicants, and the sense among many in the service that, as militiamen, they are beyond the reach of the law.



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