{"id":3165,"date":"2001-09-24T15:00:40","date_gmt":"2001-09-24T20:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=3165"},"modified":"2021-02-21T05:29:29","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T10:29:29","slug":"lapd-polygraph-backlog-at-800","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2001\/09\/24\/lapd-polygraph-backlog-at-800\/","title":{"rendered":"LAPD Polygraph Backlog at 800"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p>In an article titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/local\/knbc\/nbcv11atxrc.asp\">&#8220;Committee expands LAPD recruitment efforts,&#8221;<\/a> MSNBC.com affiliate NBC4.TV reports on the LAPD&#8217;s polygraph woes. Excerpt:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>LOS ANGELES, Sept. 24 &#8211; The City Council&#8217;s Public Safety Committee recommended today that the city fund expanded officer recruitment efforts by the Los Angeles Police Department.<\/p><p>The panel unanimously forwarded to the full council Deputy Chief Michael Bostic&#8217;s request to approve the creation of several new positions, all of which he said were needed to staff a pilot recruitment program.<\/p><p>&#8220;I think the LAPD can ill afford cost-cutting measures on staff when we&#8217;re at the breaking point where we are now,&#8221; Bostic said.<\/p><p>Among the positions that need to be filled, Bostic said, are polygraph examiners to administer tests to LAPD applicants as part of their background checks.<\/p><p>&#8220;Earlier in the year, we asked for eight polygraph examiners; we got six. So, surprise surprise, we&#8217;re 800 backlogged and now we&#8217;re trying to play catch up,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an article titled &#8220;Committee expands LAPD recruitment efforts,&#8221; MSNBC.com affiliate NBC4.TV reports on the LAPD&#8217;s polygraph woes. Excerpt: LOS ANGELES, Sept. 24 &#8211; The City Council&#8217;s Public Safety Committee recommended today that the city fund expanded officer recruitment efforts by the Los Angeles Police Department. The panel unanimously forwarded to the full council Deputy &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[126,70],"class_list":{"0":"post-3165","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-lapd","8":"tag-polygraph-screening","9":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3166,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3165\/revisions\/3166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}