
Forensic psychologist: How to stop mass murderers
CNN
Last month, the massacre in Buffalo, New York, was followed just days later by another massacre at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. This string of violence has many Americans wondering: Can mass murderers be stopped? Peter Bergens asks Reid Meloy, a forensic psychologist, to weigh in.
Reid Meloy, a forensic psychologist and a professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego, has been researching this question since the 1980s, when he started examining stalkers who sometimes carried out violent attacks. Meloy published "The Psychopathic Mind," a key text about aggressive behavior, in 1988. After the 9/11 attacks, Meloy expanded his research to examine terrorists who share some characteristics with other kinds of mass murderers and started working with the Behavioral Analysis Unit of the FBI.

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