{"id":3229,"date":"2001-11-01T15:00:26","date_gmt":"2001-11-01T20:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=3229"},"modified":"2021-02-21T16:01:47","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T21:01:47","slug":"lapd-polygraph-test-results-dont-tell-full-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2001\/11\/01\/lapd-polygraph-test-results-dont-tell-full-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;LAPD Polygraph Test Results Don&#8217;t Tell Full Truth&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p>AntiPolygraph.org&#8217;s George Maschke <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20020329015257\/http:\/\/www.dailynews.com\/opinions\/articles\/1101\/01\/lvew01.asp\">comments<\/a> in this Los Angeles <em>Daily News<\/em> op-ed piece. Excerpt:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>LOS Angeles has awarded a $615,000 noncompetitive contract to a company to give polygraph tests to Los Angeles Police Department recruits, paying double the going rate for lie-detector experts.<\/p><p>Phyllis Lynes, assistant general manager for the Personnel Department&#8217;s Public Safety Bureau, has defended the contract, saying, &#8220;The other alternative was not to staff the Police Department, and that&#8217;s not an acceptable alternative.&#8221;<\/p><p>A better alternative is to scrap the polygraph altogether.<\/p><p>Since February, when polygraph testing began, the LAPD has branded roughly half of the otherwise qualified applicants polygraphed as liars.<\/p><p>I have heard from numerous LAPD applicants who claim they were falsely accused of deception. One writes, &#8220;Here I was, thinking I was well on my way to serving LAPD with integrity and honor, being accused of not only being a druggie, but a liar as well.&#8221;<\/p><p>Another notes, &#8220;I was told that if I tell the truth I have nothing to worry about; boy, was I wrong.&#8221;<\/p><p>Those falsely accused of deception have little or no avenue of appeal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AntiPolygraph.org&#8217;s George Maschke comments in this Los Angeles Daily News op-ed piece. Excerpt: LOS Angeles has awarded a $615,000 noncompetitive contract to a company to give polygraph tests to Los Angeles Police Department recruits, paying double the going rate for lie-detector experts. Phyllis Lynes, assistant general manager for the Personnel Department&#8217;s Public Safety Bureau, has &#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":[333,126,70],"class_list":{"0":"post-3229","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-george-w-maschke","8":"tag-lapd","9":"tag-polygraph-screening","10":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3229","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=3229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3230,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3229\/revisions\/3230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}