{"id":3523,"date":"2002-05-20T15:00:54","date_gmt":"2002-05-20T20:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=3523"},"modified":"2021-02-23T02:51:21","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T07:51:21","slug":"fbi-training-unit-chief-says-nearly-half-of-agent-applicants-dont-pass-polygraph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2002\/05\/20\/fbi-training-unit-chief-says-nearly-half-of-agent-applicants-dont-pass-polygraph\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI Training Unit Chief Says Nearly Half of Agent Applicants Don&#8217;t Pass Polygraph"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p>In an article titled, <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20030226162548\/http:\/\/www.philly.com\/mld\/philly\/news\/nation\/3298893.htm\">&#8220;FBI seeks to rebuild its image,&#8221;<\/a> Chris Mondics of the <em>Philadelphia Inquirer<\/em> Washington bureau reports that Roger L. Trott, chief of the FBI&#8217;s agent training unit, asserts that nearly half of FBI agent applicants who pass preliminary tests don&#8217;t pass the polygraph. Excerpt: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8230;The bureau expects to hire only about 5 percent of the 20,000-plus people who have submitted applications since the beginning of the year.<\/p><p>Applicants are tested on analytical math and communications skills. Trott says that nearly half the applicants who survive the written tests and the interviews typically don&#8217;t pass the polygraph on past drug use, potential security risks, and other issues.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>If Trott is right, then the percentage of FBI applicants who fail to pass the polygraph is up sharply from an earlier figure of about 20%. Perhaps, with the surge in applications following the events of 11 September 2001, the FBI has decided that it can afford to arbitrarily disqualify more applicants based on polygraph chart readings.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an article titled, &#8220;FBI seeks to rebuild its image,&#8221; Chris Mondics of the Philadelphia Inquirer Washington bureau reports that Roger L. Trott, chief of the FBI&#8217;s agent training unit, asserts that nearly half of FBI agent applicants who pass preliminary tests don&#8217;t pass the polygraph. Excerpt: &#8230;The bureau expects to hire only about 5 &#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":[30,70],"class_list":{"0":"post-3523","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-fbi","8":"tag-polygraph-screening","9":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3523","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=3523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3524,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3523\/revisions\/3524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}