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Stolkhom syndrome itself is odd. I don't believe it's ever actually been categorized as a real mental state. (Could be wrong, almost 2 am and need to sleep)
But it started as a term because of a hostage crisis in Stolkhom. The police (as usual) were fucking up, and causing more mayhem than what was needed. So the hostages felt safer in the arms of the people making demands, as they knew they were in a form of safer hands than the cops.
The cops interpreted this as "clearly something has happened to the hostages" instead of doing any form of introspection of their actions, so they told the media one thing, and the media didn't double check some things, and now we have the term Stolkhom syndrome.
Well of course any belief than the police are not perfect needs to be a named pathology that can be pointed to in court to justify doing literally anything. Because scary.