Consistency
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There are many news reports of police officers who abuse their power by unjustifiably beating, tasing, shooting, or otherwise abusing people. But those news reports do not mention the psychological motive of those police officers. Their psychological motive is to assert dominance over their victims, so as to feel a sense of dominance over them. Disobedience to, fleeing from, or resisting the police officers violates their sense of dominance, which makes such sociopathic cops even more aggressive. Dominant chimpanzees are the same way. That desire for a sense of dominance, and its associated aggressive dominance-asserting behaviors, are ultimately caused by bad genetic alleles and neurological traits. If people are unaware of the psychological motive of police aggression, then the problem will never be fixed because no one will strike at its root, so it is imperative to include the psychological information.