“…Recently, two metaanalyses (Aamodt, 2004a;Visweswaran, Ones, Cullen, Drees, & Langkamp, 2003) reiterated that police officers tend to show more positive adjustment as well as increased defensiveness when compared to the general population. Some investigators have attempted to predict future behavioral problems in law enforcement candidates, but most have not specifically focused on this issue, looking instead at general job performance (Azen, Snibble, & Montgomery, 1973;Bartol, 1982Bartol, , 1991Beutler, Storm, Kirkish, Scogin, & Gaines, 1985;Blau, Super, & Brady, 1993;Brewster & Stoloff, 1999;Cortina, Doherty, Scmitt, Kaufman, & Smith, 1992;Hargrave & Berner, 1984;Hiatt & Hargrave, 1988b;Weiss, Davis, Rostow, & Kinsman, 2003). As a group, these studies have shown that poorer performers show higher scores on the Lie (L) Validity scale, Clinical scales 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0, and MacAndrews Alcoholism scale (MAC), and lower scores on Clinical Scale 3.…”