Wanted: Police Who Think Like Killers.(crime in Japan)(Brief Article)

Newsweek International, February, 2000

Yuki Nishimura thinks like a serial killer. The 34-year-old psychiatrist analyzes criminal behavior and is the only so-called profiler at Japan's National Police Agency (NPA). She recently completed a five-year study that gave Japan's cops low marks for their failure to stem violent crime. The report remains classified, but Nishimura doesn't hide her intention to remake Japan's police procedures--or her worry that the nation faces a new breed of psychopath. She recently met with NEWSWEEK's George Wehrfritz and Hideko Takayama in her office outside Tokyo. Excerpts:

NEWSWEEK: What did you find in your study?

NISHIMURA: Japanese investigators are extremely capable. However, they tend to move on the basis of instinct. The problem is that instinct can't be...

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