{"id":95,"date":"2006-11-29T10:36:18","date_gmt":"2006-11-29T14:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=95"},"modified":"2021-02-13T04:31:46","modified_gmt":"2021-02-13T09:31:46","slug":"polygraph-dragnet-fails-to-solve-jacksonville-fire-department-noose-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2006\/11\/29\/polygraph-dragnet-fails-to-solve-jacksonville-fire-department-noose-mystery\/","title":{"rendered":"Polygraph Dragnet Fails to Solve Jacksonville Fire Department Noose Mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bridget Murphy reports for the Jacksonville, Florida Times-Union<\/em> in “Lie-detector tests don’t help find truth.”<\/a> Excerpt:<\/p>\n

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After 28 lie-detector tests, 50 interviews and tests using DNA, fingerprints and palm prints, investigators don’t know who put two hangman’s nooses on the gear of two black Jacksonville firefighters.<\/p>\n

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But a Sheriff’s Office report released Tuesday on the Feb. 17 incident revealed more about what authorities do know, even if they said it’s not enough to arrest anyone.<\/p>\n

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Fire Engineer Rufus Smith, who found a noose on his bunker coat and another on a coat belonging to Fire Engineer Roderick Laws, failed a polygraph test and wouldn’t take another.<\/p>\n

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Laws wouldn’t take a polygraph test at all. And Fire Lt. Matt Cipriani, a white supervisor who was working on the shift before the nooses appeared, failed two polygraph tests.<\/p>\n

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All three of those Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department employees, along with their colleagues, denied any involvement in the incident during police interviews.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It should come as no surprise that a polygraph dragnet failed to identify the culprit in this investigation. Such mass-polygraphings have an abysmally poor track record. Recent examples include a 2003 polygraph jihad at the Irondale, Alabama city hall<\/a> and a 2006 polygraph inquisition at the Greensboro, North Carolina city council<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Bridget Murphy reports for the Jacksonville, Florida Times-Union in “Lie-detector tests don’t help find truth.” Excerpt: After 28 lie-detector tests, 50 interviews and tests using DNA, fingerprints and palm prints, investigators don’t know who put two hangman’s nooses on the gear of two black Jacksonville firefighters. But a Sheriff’s Office report released Tuesday on the …<\/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":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-95","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","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=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2695,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions\/2695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}