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If some people don't believe in psychics, the how come police departments use them to solve crimes?

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  • 2 decades ago
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    I don't particularly believe in psychics myself, but if in a situation of desperation, most people, including me, would do whatever it takes to get things done. A friend of mine had a sister that was missing for almost 2 years, her family finally decided to use a psychic, between the police and the psychic, her sisters body was found.

  • Anonymous
    2 decades ago

    some people do not believe in the accuracy of fingerprinting to identify a person, but the police use this technique all the time. some people do not beleive in eye witness testimony as reliable but it is used. some people believe that lie detectors are only 70 percent accurate, yet the police use them. There are some people who do not believe in DNA evidence as reliable or accurate. it is just another theory. So why should psychics be different. the police that beleive in them use them as they figure it cannot hurt if they get a lead and other evidence is developed. it does not mean it proves it is a true science. it just shows how desperate the police can be to get a clue,

    The police will use anything they can to solve a crime, and if they cannot solve it, they will use whatever they have to to get a conviction, even if they know the person is innocent. justice means nothing to them.

    The people that do not believe in Psychics and that also happen to be police in a decision making capacity, probably do NOT use them. this neither proves or disproves anything. it just shows that people are different, that is why.

    What people believe or do not believe does not prove or disprove anything. it is not subject to popular vote.

  • 2 decades ago

    I don't believe that using a psychic is good in any way personally. I understand why some police departments use them as a last resort, but still feel it is dangerous. Many psychics are hoax's, but others have a connection, and now I am speaking as a Christian, to demons who feed them information which helps to deceive people into following their advice. It is along the lines of necromancy, consulting mediums, ouija boards or other dangerous spiritual actions, that can destroy your lives spiritually. It opens you up to demon oppression if not worse.

  • 2 decades ago

    youve said "some people"...

    its proven their efficiency, so why not.

    Besides when someone that has nothing to do with a situation has the ability to express find and nail a thought an idea and make it and express it in real life, then why woulndnt you use it for your own benefit..its a general benefit after all....

    I mean, if it works, then use it, if not, then just throw it away...

    Another proof that science is falling apart....and another proof that religions dont work.. you can not just believe in something, that must come with action otherwise it will be dead faith you have...its the same here.... you might not believe or not in it... but its a fact that can be measured and confirmed by anybody, so... its about time for them to start givin the respect psychics need.

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    4 years ago

    There are activities that ensue which could no longer be defined by employing our known sciences and can't fairly be examined employing the scientific approach. there are various people who have confidence that something which could no longer be defined by employing technology is a hoax. I fairly have a stable appreciate for technology, yet I do comprehend that our present day sciences have not got solutions for all the questions. there continues to be very much to earnings. Psychics are employing skills and detecting stimuli that can not fairly be measured employing known technology. Does that advise that it does not exist, or perhaps we could desire to alter our information of technology to comprise those "unexplainable phenomenon". There are fakers available and scam artists. There are different people who fairly have helped the police whilst that they had no different clues. Why could the police proceed to call psychics in the event that they did no longer have confidence that they could help come to a variety a case? as a fashion to proceed to learn, we could desire to all stay open minded yet additionally be real looking in our comments. the human beings who scoff at psychics have in all probability in no way met a real psychic or had any studies that could lead on them to question their ideals. i do no longer fault them for their ideals, yet I do wish that they are going to fulfill somebody interior the destiny which will help them to appreciate what they have been brushing off as fraud.

  • 2 decades ago

    Sometimes the family of the victims give special request or pay the psychic to solve certain crimes.

  • 2 decades ago

    It's used as a last resort maybe. And even if poliec departments use psychics, it is to hope them gather evidence. The word of the psychic can never be used as evidence otherwise.

  • 2 decades ago

    as someone that has dreamed of the future and heard myself in my mind tell me things that will happen and they did although all the things i was told were things i personally would know later never something i couldn't ever know i can say there are some very weird things that cant be explained with science

    but most of those people are fake or nuts.

    i have only had these things since i hit my the front of my head on a desk and got a concussion i was out for a while and immediately after told my mom she would be in a bad head on collision on an interstate near were we would live in the future(before we were thinking of moving) and she did she was in a coma for two weeks the doctors didn't expect her to live i knew she would and she did

  • 2 decades ago

    Psychics have never solve a single case. (other than the ones where the psychic himself/herself is the culprit :P)

    http://www.csicop.org/specialarticles/police-psych...

    Article with official response from the polic:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychic_detective

  • 2 decades ago

    Some people don't believe in science. Come on, they will use anything that works and fits the evidence.

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