{"id":603,"date":"2011-09-19T04:59:30","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T08:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=603"},"modified":"2011-09-19T05:47:14","modified_gmt":"2011-09-19T09:47:14","slug":"philadelphia-p-d-s-pre-employment-polygraph-failure-rate-pegged-at-63","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/19\/philadelphia-p-d-s-pre-employment-polygraph-failure-rate-pegged-at-63\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia P.D.’s Pre-Employment Polygraph Failure Rate Pegged at 63%"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Philadelphia PD Applicant Greg Thomas (Inquirer Photograph)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In his latest article, Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Daniel Rubin documents the plight<\/a> of Greg Thomas, an investigator for the city court system who recently failed a Philadelphia Police Department pre-employment polygraph despite, he insists, having told the truth.<\/p>\n

Rubin notes that since reinstating<\/a> polygraph screening this year (it had been discontinued<\/a> in 2002), the Philadelphia P.D. has had a pre-employment polygraph failure rate of 63%. Those who do not pass are rejected. There is no appeal process. Given polygraphy’s lack of scientific underpinnings<\/a>, there can be no doubt but that many of those 63% are being falsely accused. And given the polygraph’s vulnerability to easily-learned countermeasures<\/a>, one can have little confidence that the polygraph is screening out those who have the most to hide.<\/p>\n

AntiPolygraph.org’s George Maschke is among those contacted for this article.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In his latest article, Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Daniel Rubin documents the plight of Greg Thomas, an investigator for the city court system who recently failed a Philadelphia Police Department pre-employment polygraph despite, he insists, having told the truth. Rubin notes that since reinstating polygraph screening this year (it had been discontinued in 2002), the Philadelphia …<\/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":[118,70],"class_list":{"0":"post-603","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-philadelphia-police-department","8":"tag-polygraph-screening","9":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603","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=603"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":608,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions\/608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}