Word: detectors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...check charges against Howard C. Edwards, a former minister of the Christian Church, after Edwards had made the bad check good. As proof, Highsmith offered sworn statements from Edwards and an alleged contact man. Next day the Herald arranged to fly Edwards and his colleague to Chicago for lie-detector tests. Though Edwards' test was inconclusive, the Herald was convinced that the other man's story was true...
...signed editorial title, "Here Come De Judge," News Editor William Baggs accused the Herald of "an arrogant in trusion into the due process of law." Later, the News front-paged the results of a Gerstein lie-detector test (he passed...
...Herald exceeded journalistic propriety? The grand jury seemed to think so. Two weeks ago, it not only indicted Edwards and his fellow accuser of perjury, but also rebuked the newspaper for taking it upon itself to put the witnesses under lie-detector examination. "Neither we nor other judicial tribunals," said the jurors, "believe that truth is made by an operator of a polygraph machine." A harsher rebuke came from Baggs in another News editorial: "The Herald assumed the robes of De Judge and, in effect, pointed a long and accusing inky finger at Mr. Gerstein. The grand jury believes that...
...Detector Test. Psychologists agree that every batch of fresh police recruits includes a small percentage who are attracted by the idea of force and like the feeling, as a retired officer in New Orleans put it, "that you carry half the power of God on your hip." Chicago's is one of a growing number of departments-about 10% of all the police agencies in the country-that employ sophisticated testing techniques to identify character disorders early...
...city departments such as Los Angeles and Boston generally use a variety of tests combined with psychiatric interviews. A number of departments throw in a polygraph (lie detector) test...