Police are using psychics to solve cases...

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I’m sure everyone has seen the signs for “$5 Psychic Readings” in their town or while traveling elsewhere. What I wanted to discuss here were your thoughts on using psychics for more than just personal entertainment, more specifically in police and detective work.

There’s been documented cases in the past where police haven’t been able to solve a crime, at which point they turn to a psychic for help. What I find the most interesting is when the psychics they hire actually solve the case.

What are your thoughts on this? What about using psychics to help solve some of the current investigations (such as the Peterson or Hacking trials?)

I’m not an expert myself on the topic, but I’ve been learning a bit more from a new show on Court TV called Psychic Detectives. It’s on Wednesday’s at 9:30pm in case you want to watch it too.

~ Marysol
 
i think it is a bunch of BS. the penn and teller: bull**** episode about talking to the dead confirmed my feelings.
 
Whether it is a cold reading for an individual, such as done in the "Crossing Over" tv series, phychics helping solve criminal cases is undoubtedly problematic. In most cases, the tips given by said psychics are so generalized that they could be applied to many many situations not relevant to the actual case.

When the psychics give tips, aside from usually being overly generalized, they miss critical facts very conveniently. They never seem to be able to provide actual addresses where bodies might be found, critical phone numbers, etc. Not only that, they never provide real time clues. For example, a person is kidnapped. Psychics don't seem to be able to tell what is going on at that moment or to determine the status of the victim at that time.
 
Not reliable but you know, it's better than nothing if your investigation has turned up nothing. At least it'll give you a new start. Don't forget to bring some tea and red paint. :D
 
Well, according to a news report in europe around 1994/95 at least one psychic was on our gov payroll "looking for [WMDs]" in the mid east.
 
Worse than nothing...

It raises credibility and competency issues when trained investigators have to resort to a "professional guesser" for leads. :barf:
 
About 20 years back the CIA was training psychics to be used to gather information. To keep it from sounding mystical, they called it "remote viewing" as opposed to out of body travel. Bottom line, they got good results (some were like 30 - 40% accurate), but that wasn't deemed high enough to be reliable so it was shut down.
 
I went to one of them once . I knocked on the door and they said "Who's there?" . At that point I left .
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That says it all!



Houdini believed in psychics, and spent his life exposing frauds and looking for the real thing. He didn't find any.
 
It is a sad state when psychics are better than cops at interrogation. Psychics get clues by asking a lot of questions, analizing the answers, doing more research, and asking more questions and coming to some conclusions. Any interrogation by a good psychic vs a police dept "without a clue" is better than nothing.
 
I don't think there is such a thing as a "psychic", but I do think that some people are capable of making intuitive leaps with limited information that can appear that way.

Such a person would be useful, as long as they are viewed that way.



But the idea that the electrified liver between the ears can communicate beyond the physical is something beyond wishful thinking.
 
We have had a few cases, usually missing person cases, where the families brought in a psychic. No cases that i know of were solved by information provided by the psychic.
 
Omg

Wow, this is a major burr under my saddle (not my only burr, believe it or not :) ), since you brought it up. I am dumbfounded by this, of course. I think that if any police chief allows this kind of insanity, they should be publicly tarred and feathered for their stupidity before being canned and barred from civil service employment for life. It's unfathomable that our tax money would be so blatently wasted. :mad:

P.S. Of course the con men and women ("psychics") didn't solve the case - you've been misled - assuming you're not just a troll here. But in any event, thank you for the heads up - just the fact that courtTV airs such a bogus waste of time is plenty enough reason to never again watch that channel, which is supposed to be reality.

PPS. And sorry, 30-40% is not "good results" - 80 or 90% might be considered good. Like someone said, it's just a matter of them doing detective work - if they're actually better than the DETECTIVES who've been trained in the area and working in the area, then it's a sad, sad state of affairs - another good reason to fire the police chief.
 
I hope none of my tax $ are being used for the police to call up the psychic hot line. I think there was a fraud case brought against the psychic hot line a few years back. Anyway, I don't see them being advertised anymore.
 
There was a case in SC a lotta years ago (12-15, I think), involving a missing child. A psychic called the county sheriff and was adamant she had had "a vision" and could direct the deputies to the missing child. Against his better judgment, and at the family's insistence, the sheriff scheduled a meeting with the psychic.

"You say you 'saw' where the child is, now?"
"Yes!"
OK, where?"
"I'm not sure of the exact location, but it's a sandy place near some pine trees."

Folks, I challenge you to find ANY place in lowcountry SC that isn't covered with sand AND pine trees. The part I remember best is the sheriff's facial expression. If the psychic could have read HIS mind, she'd have fainted in fright. :D
 
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