Elliot_Alderson
Well-Known Idiot
This is a very popular statement people always make online with such authority.
So tell me why does the FBI waste their time giving lie detector tests to suspects if it’s useless? For fun?
I have a good friend who is the chief of police of a small city in upstate NY, and I asked him about polygraphs. He told me they use them for internal investigations on cops, for job interviews and all kinds of things WITHIN the department. But yet every amateur online always says their useless… who to believe?
People say they're useless because they aren't admissible in court/a trial. I believe LE would use them in an investigation as if someone fails one, then LE has some leverage to use within the confines of an interrogation but I don't believe lie detector results are going to be used to convict anyone OR even to solely convince a judge to sign a search warrant. JMO