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| DOC Increasingly Using Lie Detectors |
| By sun-sentinel.com |
| Published: 04/12/2010 |
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In a world of new-fangled law-enforcement gadgets and snazzy crime-fighting technology, police are embracing an old standby, the polygraph, to help crack cases and keep an eye on bad guys. Law enforcement officers across the country increasingly use the "lie detector" in situations such as interviews of domestic-violence convicts and on married couples in immigration cases, experts say. The FBI uses it in terrorism cases. Results generally are inadmissible in court, but polygraph results can lead to arrests. "Normally, a person who's being honest has no problem taking it," Boca Raton Detective Juan Carlos Pijuan said. "It's just something we use as a tool to continue our investigation." Pijuan, a certified polygraph examiner, said many people who know they're not telling the truth still are willing to take the test, thinking they can beat it. They're even shown the questions in advance. But with a polygraph, biological responses cut through a lie, experts say. That, Pijuan said, is what happened to Nelson Uraga Albino, who admitted to his involvement in a 2007 Boca Raton homicide after failing the lie detector. Read More. |
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Even if lie detector results aren't submittable in court, I think that they are still a useful tool. Like it said in this article, they can help to lead to arrests. Some people say that it is possible to beat a polygraph and I'm sure some people might be able to. A nerveless individual that doesn't get scared or has no conscience may be able to slip under the radar, but for the most part I think that most people will crack under the pressure.