{"id":332,"date":"2009-08-12T05:01:39","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T09:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=332"},"modified":"2009-08-20T06:32:50","modified_gmt":"2009-08-20T10:32:50","slug":"s-f-weekly-rips-san-francisco-police-departments-reliance-on-polygraphy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2009\/08\/12\/s-f-weekly-rips-san-francisco-police-departments-reliance-on-polygraphy\/","title":{"rendered":"S.F. Weekly Rips San Francisco Police Department&#8217;s Reliance on Polygraphy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>In a well-researched <a title=\"SFPD can't tell a lie: It still uses unreliable polygraph to screen recruits\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sfweekly.com\/2009-08-12\/news\/sfpd-can-t-tell-a-lie-it-still-uses-unreliable-polygraph-to-screen-recruits\/\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a>, <em>S.F. Weekly<\/em> reporter Matt Smith critically examines the SFPD&#8217;s reliance on polygraphy for applicant screening, despite it being completely discredited among scientists. Those interviewed include retired FBI scientist Dr. Drew Richardson, Professor <a title=\"Stephen Fienberg's University Webpage\" href=\"http:\/\/lib.stat.cmu.edu\/~fienberg\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Fienberg<\/a>, who headed a National Academy of Sciences panel that\u00a0 reviewed the scientific evidence on polygraphy, and polygraph operator <a title=\"Patrick Coffey Advertisement on PolygraphPlace.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.polygraphplace.com\/specialist\/patrickcoffey.htm\">Patrick Coffey<\/a>, who&#8217;s company conducts polygraph examinations for the SFPD (and who in the past has <a href=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/cgi-bin\/forums\/YaBB.pl?num=1207056917\/1\">trolled<\/a> AntiPolygraph.org&#8217;s forums under the moniker, TheNoLieGuy4U).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a well-researched article, S.F. Weekly reporter Matt Smith critically examines the SFPD&#8217;s reliance on polygraphy for applicant screening, despite it being completely discredited among scientists. Those interviewed include retired FBI scientist Dr. Drew Richardson, Professor Stephen Fienberg, who headed a National Academy of Sciences panel that\u00a0 reviewed the scientific evidence on polygraphy, and polygraph &#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":[73,70,72],"class_list":{"0":"post-332","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-patrick-t-coffey","8":"tag-polygraph-screening","9":"tag-san-francisco-police-department","10":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","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=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions\/334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}