Antipolygraph

Do Lie Detector Tests Really Work? - Psychology Today Do Lie Detector Tests Really Work? - Psychology Today Researchers Built an ‘Online Lie Detector.’ Honestly, That Could Be a Problem - WIRED Polygraph lie detector tests: Can they really stop criminals reoffending? - Phys.org Do Lie Detector Tests Really Work? - Psychology Today Posted: 14 Jan 2020 12:00 AM PST In February of 1994, the FBI arrested Aldrich Ames, who had been a CIA employee for 31 years. Ames was arrested and charged with espionage. He was a Russian spy. For nine years, he had been passing secrets to the Russians in exchange for over $1.3 million. His spying activities had compromised dozens of CIA and FBI operations. Worse yet, his treacherous crimes had led to the deaths of several CIA spies and the imprisonment of many more. During the time that Aldrich Ames was operating as a Russian spy, the CIA had twice given him a lie detector test...

CCSO 911 communication officers wanted; starting pay increased - Citrus County Chronicle CCSO 911 communication officers wanted; starting pay increased - Citrus County Chronicle Posted: 21 Sep 2020 12:00 AM PDT Tiana Jarrell's eyes scoured a cluster of computer monitors with maps and details on 911 calls. Her hands glided across keyboards, ready to take a sudden phone call for help and relay the emergency to appropriate responders. Jarrell's first shift alone "on the floor" of the Citrus County Sheriff's Office's 911 Communications Center inside the Emergency Operations Center was July 4, 2020. Independence Day seemed somewhat fitting as it marked the end of Jarrell's 700 hours of paid intake training after her hiring in February. Jarrell was drawn into the job because of its parameters, qualification requirements and benefits. "The obvious rewards are helping people, and I t...

Government plans lie detector tests for terrorists but SNP is blocking them in Scotland - Daily Mail Government plans lie detector tests for terrorists but SNP is blocking them in Scotland - Daily Mail Posted: 02 Sep 2020 12:00 AM PDT A Government plan to make terrorists take lie detector tests before they can be paroled from prison is being blocked in Scotland by Nicola Sturgeon 's SNP . The UK's independent reviewer of terror legislation, Jonathan Hall QC, suggested the tests could be used to assess a convicted terrorist's threat after they are released from jail.  Mr Hall stressed that the tests – called polygraphs – could be a 'sensible additional tool'. It was part of a raft of recommendations he made after ministers ordered a study following the stabbing to death of two people on London Bridge by a convicted terrorist in 2019.  Mr Hall recommended a change in the law to permit lie tests.  Nicola S...

Inconsistent approach on police psych exams - Concord Monitor Inconsistent approach on police psych exams - Concord Monitor Posted: 21 Sep 2020 06:54 AM PDT After police applicants in New Hampshire are winnowed by a rigorous process of written tests, interviews, oral boards, polygraph tests and background checks, many prospective officers must also be psychologically evaluated before they go through the state police academy to become certified. Hudson Police Chief Bill Avery said psych tests are one component of the hiring process, but no less "vital" than the other screenings. And yet, the tests are used inconsistently – and sometimes not at all – by law enforcement agencies in the state. "It's tremendously concerning that there isn't a uniform standard for psych evals in New Hampshire," said Nicole Sawyer, one of a handful of psychologists in New Hampshire who performs psychological evaluations for police cand...

Researchers Built an ‘Online Lie Detector.’ Honestly, That Could Be a Problem - WIRED Researchers Built an ‘Online Lie Detector.’ Honestly, That Could Be a Problem - WIRED Posted: 21 Mar 2019 12:00 AM PDT The internet is full of lies . That maxim has become an operating assumption for any remotely skeptical person interacting anywhere online, from Facebook and Twitter to phishing-plagued inboxes to spammy comment sections to online dating and disinformation-plagued media. Now one group of researchers has suggested the first hint of a solution: They claim to have built a prototype for an "online polygraph" that uses machine learning to detect deception from text alone. But what they've actually demonstrated, according to a few machine learning academics, is the inherent danger of overblown machine learning claims. In last month's issue of the journal Computers in Human Behavior , Florida State University and Stanfor...

'American Murder: The Family Next Door': Everything We Know - MarieClaire.com 'American Murder: The Family Next Door': Everything We Know - MarieClaire.com Posted: 18 Sep 2020 02:02 PM PDT Shanann Watts/Netflix/2020 Netflix There's been no shortage of true crime podcasts , documentaries and dramatizations in 2020—because when the world is going up in flames, there's something oddly comforting about distracting ourselves with the trials and tribulations of total strangers. Fortunately for armchair investigators looking for a new case to sink their teeth into, your next true crime obsession will soon arrive on Netflix in the form of American Murder: The Family Next Door , a documentary film about the 2018 Watts family murders. American Murder will start streaming on Sept. 30 , using home videos, social media posts, text messages and police footage to piece together the investigation into t...