I guess I am considered a liar and a criminal to L.A.P.D. I never knew anything about the polygraph until I saw this website. I thought it was no big deal and it was just a step in the process. I was wrong!! 

We went over the questions and the test started. He did the control questions and after the test was over, he came back at me saying not to move. He said I was sitting on a sensor pad which there was and it showed I was squeezing something. I was like, I have no idea what you are talking about. he said I was squeezing a muscle. I was not but it showed on his test. Until I read this website, that muscle must have been the anal muscle for a countermeasure. i had no idea!! i was not trying to do that.

I answered every question truthfully and i failed every question. I could not believe it. I really did tell the truth. I dont know anyone here and have nothing to lie about. The polygraph destoyed my chances at a career. I would say 95% of the people applying for law enforcement do not belong. i am not one of them. i worked hard in getting my degree and a question i failed on was, before applying for the LAPD, you atteneded high school. I evejn failed that question. i told him do you want to see my transcripts, my diploma, my pictures. I could not believe it!!!! I even have a college education!! During background they even check that out. So I said to him, you are saying I never went to high school. he said you probably didn't. I wanted to rip this guys throat out. i had a few words for him and could not belive I failed every question. THere was about 10 questions whic were

Did you go to high school

Have you committed a serious crime. I said no, I consider a serious crime murder or stuff like that. I failed on that

Something about domestic disputes. I failed again!!!

Drug usage. i told the truth before the test and he failed me.

THere was a few more questions but i failed every one. Is it normal for your arm to swell up and get numb, turn blue, red from the cuff around you arm being so tight. Mine was.

I forgot to ask him if I failed when he asked what my name was.

LAPD seems shady. Something is going on. I would have made a good officer but it is there loss.

I guess I am a criminal now right. Am I going to be banned from every department now.

I thought the polygraph would be good to hire honest people and get the dishonest ones out of the process but I was wrong. I could not believe i failed. I thought it was a joke. 

Well I had never heard of any of that until today when I saw this website. I had no idea what he was talking about when he said i was moving a muscle. I dont recall ever moving anything.

ca_2000 wrote on Nov 1^st, 2006 at 5:55pm:


So how long did it take you to get your results???

mizzzz

Unless you agreed to it, polygraph and CVSA results CANNOT be introduced as evidence in a court of law. If you have lost your job over this, tell your lawyer to get started on the complaint against your company. When the charges are thrown out, the complaint can be modified to include the PD.

Hey all!  I am new to this site, but it has been incredibly helpful in figuring out what happened to me.  About a year ago, my exwife began making FALSE allegations toward me or molesting my own three children.  And because our system is so screwed up, she has practically been able to keep my children away from me with NO evidence, only her hear-say!  Like most people in this world, I was totally oblivious to the truth about the polygraph.  I thought it was never wrong.  I thought it would tell the truth.  So, for months I begged to take one to prove my innocence.  Instead of setting me free it incrimnated me.  I took it at my local police department.  From the start the detective was accusing me of attempting countermeasures.  I didnt even know what a countermeasure was at that time.  Bottom line is the test came back with a deceptive result.  I was 100% truthful when answering the questions.  I could never harm any child let alone my own.  They are my world!  I dont care what any person defending the polygraph says.  I know for a FACT that it is JUNK SCIENCE!  It has branded me a child molester and that simply IS NOT TRUE!  I even spoke to my psychology professor at college and he said JUNK SCIENCE the second I said the word polygraph.  I have made several fliers that I will be hanging all over my community warning the general public of the dangers of this lie they call the polygraph.  I think that any police officer that uses it in the manner that most of them do should remove the word integrity from their list of accolades.