It's purported by some studies, not without a lot of controversy, that mentally ill people are more violent than neurotypicals. Setting aside all the prejudices and all the ways studies could be warped (studying prisoners, believing things the cops and courts say), the sheer amount of violence, torture, neglect, deprivation, and discrimination faced by mentally ill people would account for any small increase in violent behavior many times over.
did they account police violence as violence commited by neurotypicals or did they consider that many policemen have latent psychopathic tendencies and thus count as neurodivergent
It’s purported by some studies, not without a lot of controversy, that mentally ill people are more violent than neurotypicals.
Pretty well established that high levels of stress and subsequent PTSD tend to lead towards shorter tempers and more violent behaviors. Similarly, malnutrition heightens aggression (ask literally anyone with low blood sugar issues what it does to their attitudes) and sleep deprivation heightens aggression and physical discomforts from extreme temperatures or chronic pain heighten aggression. All of this is correlated with mental illness.
These are all environmental factors, though. If you don't like dealing with people who are sleep deprived, malnourished, in chronic pain, and under enormous amounts of stress... there is an abundance of social policy at hand to fix all of these problems. It all just costs material resources and human labor. And, in America, that means it costs money. So we don't do it.
It's purported by some studies, not without a lot of controversy, that mentally ill people are more violent than neurotypicals. Setting aside all the prejudices and all the ways studies could be warped (studying prisoners, believing things the cops and courts say), the sheer amount of violence, torture, neglect, deprivation, and discrimination faced by mentally ill people would account for any small increase in violent behavior many times over.
did they account police violence as violence commited by neurotypicals or did they consider that many policemen have latent psychopathic tendencies and thus count as neurodivergent
lol I hadn't even considered that angle.
I think cops are more sociopath (aggressively antisocial) than psychopath (unempathetic) usually.
they do measure higher as the unempathtic kind on tests source
higher than the general population in coldheartedness too
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I mean the correct answer is that what cops enact is "The Law", which of course "Not Violence".
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Pretty well established that high levels of stress and subsequent PTSD tend to lead towards shorter tempers and more violent behaviors. Similarly, malnutrition heightens aggression (ask literally anyone with low blood sugar issues what it does to their attitudes) and sleep deprivation heightens aggression and physical discomforts from extreme temperatures or chronic pain heighten aggression. All of this is correlated with mental illness.
These are all environmental factors, though. If you don't like dealing with people who are sleep deprived, malnourished, in chronic pain, and under enormous amounts of stress... there is an abundance of social policy at hand to fix all of these problems. It all just costs material resources and human labor. And, in America, that means it costs money. So we don't do it.
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If society treats a group more violently, especially from a young age, that group will on average be more violent. It seems simple enough.