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‘Clairvoyant crime busters’: using psychic powers in policing : Comments

By Binoy Kampmark, published 23/8/2010

Where does the role of the psychic lie in policing, if at all?

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what rot, there is no such thing as the supernatural.
Clairoyant fakery can cause a great deal of harm.

A COUPLE allegedly tied up and tortured a teenage employee because a Vietnamese fortune teller told them she stole from them, a Darwin court has heard. Read more: http://www.news.com.au/national/fortune-teller-blamed-for-teen-torture/story-e6frfkvr-1225900949467#ixzz0xNiwCWXe
Posted by Kenny, Monday, 23 August 2010 9:47:46 AM
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'Psychic' powers are non existent, and those who claim to have them are either liars or deluded idiots. It is a sad day indeed when grief stricken people are encouraged to believe in the efficacy of 'psychics' by misguided members of what should be the most pragmatic of all professions - ie our police force. The drivelling tripe propounded by various TV shows add to the confusion among the less intelligent members of the community.
Psychic revelations; prayers; contact with the 'afterlife' via 'mediums' and the like; fortune telling; water (or gold, etc)divining; biblical prophecy; astrology - the list goes on - are money making scams practiced by scoundrels and believed by fools.
Posted by GYM-FISH, Monday, 23 August 2010 11:28:33 AM
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My sister took her cat to the vet. When they arrived, her cat (Sarah) managed to jump in fright out of the car, onto the street and was gone. For 10 days my sister cried and fretted that her cat was lost. After 10 days, my sister's friend listened to my sister crying to her on the phone. My sister's friend suddenly said "we will find her", and she left immediately in her car to travel from the other side of town at night-time to my sister's house. When she arrived, she decided to drive straight away to a randomly selected street where they stopped at one particular house, with this street and house randomly chosen for no particular reason. It was the only house they went to. This house was not near the vet, but in the same suburb, nor was is near to my sister's house, but was in the same suburb. My sister's friend and my sister got out of the car and stood at the front of this house. The cat started miaowing. It had been locked in the garage of this house for 10 days without food or water. The old people who lived there had no idea that the cat had been locked inside. My sister didn't know these people, nor did my sister's friend. No reason why my sister's friend suddenly decided that they had to go to that particular house all of a sudden and out of the blue. If that friend of my sister happened to be me, I wouldn't dare to reveal it because people would think I was a nutter. It was very good luck that they happened to go to exactly the right place to find Sarah.
I think most people who claim to have psychic powers have delusions of grandeur - like religious magicians, conjuring up spells. Mix em up and turn em round and turn em round again. And yet, sometimes stuff just happens there is no logical or scientific explanation for, that we know about ... yet, or, that is knowable to us.
Posted by dotto, Monday, 23 August 2010 2:16:38 PM
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"My sister took her cat to the vet...

...they happened to go to exactly the right place to find Sarah."

Sorry, but either you are trying to fool us or someone is trying to fool you. That happens a lot, which is why scientific investigation by objective investigators is the only way to verify or disprove events of this kind.
Posted by Jon J, Monday, 23 August 2010 8:44:25 PM
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'You got to ac-centuate the positive and e-liminate the negative,' Dean Martin once sang, and the followers of psychics dutifully take this advice to heart.

So 'Cheryl' got lucky and stumbled across a corpse. Not the right one, but hey, why be picky? Otherwise one might also question the 'dream' as opposed to just a good old-fashioned hunch that a murderer might dump a body in bushland conveniently located in an otherwise urban area.

No magical powers, just a bit of intuition and a bucketload of pure, dumb luck.
Posted by Clownfish, Monday, 23 August 2010 10:01:39 PM
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A lovely story Dotto and one I enjoyed. When I was ten years old my second cat, a kitten of 6 months old disappeared one day after school. Similarly I discovered her on the other side of town wrapped up in a little red nurses cape and white nurse uniform by some children in daycare at a lady's home. They had princess sitting in a pram taking her for a walk in the front yard with the daycare lady smiling at them: picture a tabby on a hot summers day wrapped up in an old nurse's uniform LOL, concerned she was going to die of dehydration.

To this day I recall walking in a certain direction across town into that certain street where I found her.

Disregard the cynics. Generally black and white insecure thinkers, suspicious of any minds who are able to open up, are in touch with their feelings, intuition, those who are broadminded as ourselves.
Posted by we are unique, Monday, 23 August 2010 10:03:19 PM
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