Editing Stockholm syndrome (section)

=== FBI law enforcement bulletin (1999) ===
A 1999 report by the FBI containing more than 1,200 hostage incidents found that only 8% of kidnapping victims showed signs of Stockholm syndrome.<ref name="FBI-1999">{{cite journal |last=Fuselier |first=G. Dwayne |date=July 1999 |title=Placing the Stockholm Syndrome in Perspective |journal=[[FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin]] |volume=68 |issue=7 |pages=22–25 |url=http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/fbi/stockholm_syndrome.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040627010420/http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/fbi/stockholm_syndrome.pdf |archive-date=27 June 2004 |s2cid=10256916 }}</ref> When victims who showed only negative feeling toward the law enforcement personnel are excluded, the percentage decreases to 5%. A survey of 600 police agencies in 1989, performed by the FBI and the University of Vermont, found not a single case when emotional involvement between the victim and the kidnapper interfered with or jeopardized an assault. In short, this database provides empirical support that the Stockholm syndrome remains a rare occurrence. The sensational nature of dramatic cases causes the public to perceive this phenomenon as the rule rather than the exception. The bulletin concludes that, although depicted in fiction and movies and often referred to by the news media, the phenomenon actually occurs rarely. Therefore, crisis negotiators should place the Stockholm syndrome in proper perspective.<ref name="FBI-1999"/>