Original reporting and commentary about polygraphs, voice stress analyzers, and other purported "lie detectors."
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette staff writer Michael A. Fuoco reports. Excerpt: To tell the truth, polygraph examiners for Pittsburgh and Allegheny County police didn’t blink an eye last week when a National Research Council study found that lie detector tests administered annually to tens of thousands of federal employees hadn’t uncovered a single spy. But the local …
Thomas J. Gibbons, Jr., reports for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Excerpt: In a major policy shift, candidates for the Philadelphia Police Department will no longer have to pass a lie-detector test to be accepted to the force, according to a directive from Police Commissioner Sylvester M. Johnson. The order takes effect immediately, affecting a new list …
Gloria Campisi reports for the Philadelphia Daily News. Excerpt: The Philadelphia Police Department is scrapping the polygraph test as a hiring tool. Police Commissioner Sylvester Johnson said yesterday more intensive background checks would replace the lie detector test, which has been in use here for more than 20 years. The action was hailed by a …
Mark McDonald reports for the Philadelphia Daily News. Excerpt: AFTER AN inconclusive result on his first lie-detector test of the day, City Councilman Frank DiCicco late last night passed a second test, giving weight to his allegation that colleague Rick Mariano made an ethnic slur against Irish-Americans. Mariano, refusing to submit to a polygraph himself, …
WPVI.com provides an Associated Press report on Philadelphia Councilman Frank DiCicco’s polygraph examination as well as a RealPlayer video file with reporter Dann Cuellar’s news story. Excerpt from the Associated Press report: PHILADELPHIA – February 19, 2002 – Maybe Frank DiCicco should start raising campaign funds on ABC’s “The Chair.” DiCicco, a Philadelphia councilman, seems …
Tony Romeo reports for KYW news radio. This short article from the KYW website is cited here in full: Results are inconclusive following a lie detector test administered to a Philadelphia city councilman who accused another councilman of an ethnic slur The spat between First District councilman Frank DiCicco and Seventh District councilman Richard Mariano …
Mark McDonald reports for the Philadelphia Daily News. Excerpt: DID CITY Councilman Rick Mariano refer to residents of Irish descent in the 31st Ward in Kensington as “trailer-park Irish trash?” Councilman Frank DiCicco is so sure of it, he’s taking a Daily News-sponsored lie-detector test today to prove it. DiCicco says Mariano made the remark …