How Psychic Sleuths Waste Police Resources

[vbloke]

20 Case Studies by Joe Nickell (http://web.archive.org/web/20060409101139/http:/www.parascope.com/en/articles/psychicSleuths.htm)
As these examples show, psychics are a hindrance rather than an aid to police. In fact, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, a branch of the Department of Justice, states there is not a single documented instance of anyone finding a missing child through the use of psychic power. (Marder 1994.) The same is true of crime solving. No longer should self-styled psychics be given credit for the difficult work done by law enforcement personnel.

[Zaira]

Since psychics have so much trouble getting the police to take them seriously, why don’t some psychics get together and open up a psychic detective agency and have other psychics email in their ’stuff’ to be investigated by the psychic team.

An idea there for a TV show at least. Don’t you think?

[dalriada]

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk_Gently's_Holistic_Detective_Agency

I love that book.....:smiley:

[bindeweede]

Since psychics have so much trouble getting the police to take them seriously, why don’t some psychics get together and open up a psychic detective agency and have other psychics email in their ’stuff’ to be investigated by the psychic team.

An idea there for a TV show at least. Don’t you think?

Nice idea, but would psychic A let psychic B get the fame and publicity for "discovering" information? Oh sorry, these people shun publicity, don't they?

[Zaira]

"Nice idea, but would psychic A let psychic B get the fame and publicity for "discovering" information? Oh sorry, these people shun publicity, don't they?"

Actually in my fantasy they are all in it to help people, and they all work together very, very well. lol

[tolman]

As a TV show, for a fly-on the setup covering the slap-fights that erupted when they all tried to claim they'd thought of something first, it might be worth watching, if you could actually get any people to participate.

Even better would be a show with one person who pretended to be psychic, but who was secretly fed advance information about the cases being investigated. That way, you'd know they were going to be right often enough to get the competition really flowing.

[tolman]

-> fly-on-the-wall.

Curse this lack of editability. Curse the people who made it necessary.

[fruitfly]

Here's an interesting article about a psychic who actually did help police solve a missing person case. Though not in the way she would have us believe.

http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:r7m3P4_mtK0J:blogs.kansascity.com/crime_scene/files/psychics_aid_police_in_crime_fighting_but_skeptici sm_abounds.pdf+KlaasKids+psychics&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=10

Read the entire article and all will become clear at the end. Clever policeman! I note she denies charging for her services despite evidence that she did. Denying the facts; remind you of anyone?

[psychicsarah]

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Denying the facts; remind you of anyone?

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NO... can't say it does....!!!

[vbloke]

Sarah

Who is more trustworthy - the police or a member of the public with an agenda?

Why would the police lie about their use of psychics, despite all these aggrandising claims that potentially 100's of you self-proclaimed psychics have done everything from "helped in" to "solved" crimes?

Could it be more likely that the police (especially under the auspices of the FOI Act) are telling the truth, rather than the self-proclaimed psychics?

[HeyJupiter]

Since psychics have so much trouble getting the police to take them seriously, why don’t some psychics get together and open up a psychic detective agency and have other psychics email in their ’stuff’ to be investigated by the psychic team.


An idea there for a TV show at least. Don’t you think?

I can picture it on LivingTV already :smiley:

[td17_uk]

As a TV show, for a fly-on the setup covering the slap-fights that erupted when they all tried to claim they'd thought of something first, it might be worth watching, if you could actually get any people to participate.

Even better would be a show with one person who pretended to be psychic, but who was secretly fed advance information about the cases being investigated. That way, you'd know they were going to be right often enough to get the competition really flowing.


you second sentence describes every psychic show already on TV LOL