{"id":3819,"date":"2002-11-06T15:30:45","date_gmt":"2002-11-06T20:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=3819"},"modified":"2021-03-06T05:18:54","modified_gmt":"2021-03-06T10:18:54","slug":"san-diego-police-department-polygraph-failure-rate-pegged-at-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2002\/11\/06\/san-diego-police-department-polygraph-failure-rate-pegged-at-40\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego Police Department Polygraph Failure Rate Pegged at 40%"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p>In an article titled, <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20030226152127\/http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/metro\/20021108-9999_7m8recruit.html\">&#8220;Long arm of the law reaches out for help,&#8221;<\/a> San Diego <em>Union-Tribune<\/em> staff writer Shanna McCord reports on the SDPD pre-employment polygraph failure rate. Excerpt: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>And then there&#8217;s a lie detector test, which weeds out a large number of applicants.<\/p><p>&#8220;Number one for us is honesty,&#8221; said Stacee Botsford, a recruiter for the San Diego Police Department, which operates with 2,100 sworn officers. &#8220;We can&#8217;t take anyone who lies or tells half-truths or omits information.&#8221;<\/p><p>Botsford says 40 percent of San Diego police applicants &#8211; 2,300 a year for about 100 to 150 openings &#8211; fail the lie detector test.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an article titled, &#8220;Long arm of the law reaches out for help,&#8221; San Diego Union-Tribune staff writer Shanna McCord reports on the SDPD pre-employment polygraph failure rate. Excerpt: And then there&#8217;s a lie detector test, which weeds out a large number of applicants. &#8220;Number one for us is honesty,&#8221; said Stacee Botsford, a recruiter &#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":[339,70,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-3819","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-california","8":"tag-polygraph-screening","9":"tag-san-diego-police-department","10":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3819","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=3819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3820,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3819\/revisions\/3820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}