Hello,

Public Servant, Yes I did some things in my past that I regret, and I did lie on my polygraph, (one of few who will admit that, even anonymously, on this website) but I am much older and wiser now and if it was me who was responding to a call that you were involved in,  you couldn't ask for someone more dedicated.  Qualified, no, not yet, that will come with training, but I take this career very seriously and I am honored to be a part of something much bigger then myself or you or this ridiculous test.  

The main reason why LE has to stop giving pre-employment polygraphs is because with enough dedication, it is beatable.  Now I didn't pursue this career for the wrong reasons, but someone very well could.  The background check my department did was a joke, they basically completly relied on the polygraph.  That scares me as it should you.  

I thought it was amusing that you mentioned the narcotics seizure theory.  Do you think I couldn't get drugs now if I wanted them.  Because I was involved with that scene when I was a teenager I have seen personally what drugs have done to people's lives, and yes I was trying to be funny with my comment about the joint, but if you feel that my integrity was compromised by lying on the test, then we'll just have to agree to disagree, because my integrity as a person and as an officer is and will be impecable.

I am a real person, this is a true story. (Slightly altered for my own protection) I decided to tell the truth about my situation on this board so that real people who might have been a little deliquent when they were juviniles might read this and know that there's a chance.    

Grateful