suethem,

I assume you meant to say "what if the future defendant is not one of the eleven?"

Apparently ten, if not all eleven, of these people are innocent. And we don't know how many other people were tested who "passed".

For the sake of argument, lets assume that one of the eleven is the perpetrator. That means that ten of the polygraphs resulted in an error. Do you realize that if what the pro-poly crowd says is true (98% accuracy on incident-specific exams) then the Warren PD had to polygraph 500 people to get an error on 10 tests? Warren has a total population of 4,776 people, and 1,797 are males over the age of 14.

Are we to believe that they polygraphed 28% of the teen and adult male population of this town?

Oh, and the Warren PD consists of a Chief, 1 detective, 4 full-time officers, six part-time officers and a clerk. Looks like maybe the clerk does double-duty as a professional polygrapher. And who knows, maybe she is a Canuck.