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Post by Helen Dagner on Feb 28, 2012 7:17:13 GMT -5
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Post by Helen Dagner on Feb 28, 2012 10:44:31 GMT -5
The American Polygraph Association (APA) published at p. 32 of the March/April 2011 issue of its bimensual APA Magazine a letter censuring polygraph operator Patrick T. Coffey for providing inaccurate information in an application for renewal of his APA membership.
Regular readers of AntiPolygraph.org may recall that Mr. Coffey authored controversial posts on this message board that were later cited in an article by S.F. Weekly reporter Matt Smith. Coffey subsequently threatened me with a lawsuit for linking to this article in a blog post titled, "Is Patrick T. Coffey Fit to Be Screening Police Applicants?"
Coffey did not follow through with his threatened law suit, and it is AntiPolygraph.org's understanding that the San Francisco Police Department chose not to extend its contract with Coffey for the polygraph screening of applicants.
AntiPolygraph.org has received a copy of the APA's letter of censure, which is transcribed below and attached to this post in PDF format:
Quote: March 11, 2011
Patrick T. Coffey 533 Airport Blvd. Suite 400 Burlingame, California 94010 via email: PTCoffey@mindspring.com
Re: APA Grievance No. 127-10
Dear Mr. Coffey:
It is the decision of the Board of Directors of the American Polygraph Association (APA) to accept an agreed disposition between you and the APA Ethics and Grievance Committee (EGC) of Ethics Complaint No. 127-10 which was received by the APA on May 28, 2010. That agreed disposition is for the issuance of a public letter of censure to be published in an upcoming issue of the APA Magazine.
The complaint in this matter alleges that you failed to provide complete and accurate information when you re-applied for membership with the APA. Although you presented evidence that the inaccurate information provided on that re-application for membership was done unintentionally, the Committee determined, and the Board of Directors agree, that with the reasonable diligence expected of an applicant, you should have known that this information was inaccurate.
The APA depends on the diligence and candor of applicants to provide accurate information on applications. Without such diligence and candor, the APA cannot make informed decisions about whether an applicant meets the professional standards for membership.
Based on this agreed disposition and its adoption by the Board of Direcetors, it is directed that this letter be submitted for publication in the APA Magazine at the earliest available opportunity.
Sincerely,
Nathan J. Gordon President, American Polygraph Association
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Post by Helen Dagner on Feb 28, 2012 21:55:26 GMT -5
antipolygraph.org/ Did you know: The consensus view among scientists is that polygraph testing has no scientific basis? The FBI considered the creator of the lie detector test to be a phony and a crackpot? The man who started the CIA's polygraph program thinks that plants can read human thoughts? The foremost polygraph advocate in academia was discredited by a federal judge? A prominent past-president of the American Polygraph Association is a phony Ph.D., and this premier polygraph organization doesn't consider it an ethics problem? The longest polygraph school produces newly minted polygraphers in just 14 weeks -- less than half the time it takes to graduate from a typical barber college? The National Center for Credibility Assessment (the erstwhile DoD Polygraph Institute) suppressed a study suggesting that innocent blacks are more likely to fail the polygraph than innocent whites? The researcher who developed the U.S. Government's polygraph Test for Espionage and Sabotage "thought the whole security screening program should be shut down?" The National Academy of Sciences concluded that "[polygraph testing's] accuracy in distinguishing actual or potential security violators from innocent test takers is insufficient to justify reliance on its use in employee security screening in federal agencies?"
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Post by Helen Dagner on Feb 28, 2012 23:46:10 GMT -5
antipolygraph.org/blog/?tag=patrick-t-coffey Posts Tagged ‘Patrick T. Coffey’ Polygrapher Patrick T. Coffey Threatens Lawsuit, Demands Retraction September 15th, 2009 AntiPolygraph.org 8 comments Patrick T. Coffey Patrick T. Coffey Polygraph operator Patrick T. Coffey of San Francisco has threatened AntiPolygraph.org co-founder George Maschke with a defamation lawsuit. In a letter (877 kb PDF) dated 4 September 2009 sent by U.S. mail and fax, Coffey’s attorney, Carleton L. Briggs, demands “a full and complete retraction” of the 20 August 2009 blog post, “Is Patrick T. Coffey Fit to Be Screening Police Applicants?” The letter, ominously titled “Coffey v. SF Weekly, Maschke, et al.” begins (hyperlinks supplied): I represent Patrick T. Coffey, the subject of an article entitled “Is Patrick Coffey Fit to Be Screening Police Applicants?” which appeared on your blog on August 20, 2009. Your article referred to, and contained a hyperlink to, an article entitled “The Lie Detective” by Matt Smith in the August 19-25 issue of SF Weekly, Volume 28, Number 30. I enclose a copy of your article and of the SF Weekly article, which quotes both you and your blog. Read more… Categories: Polygraph Tags: bias, bigotry, defamation, Patrick T. Coffey, San Francisco, San Francisco Police Department, SF Weekly Is Patrick T. Coffey Fit to Be Screening Police Applicants? August 20th, 2009 AntiPolygraph.org 1 comment Following up on his previous article on the San Francisco Police Department’s reliance on polygraph screening–despite broad scientific consensus that it is invalid–S.F. Weekly reporter Matt Smith takes an in-depth look at the man the SFPD has hired to polygraph applicants: Patrick T. Coffey, who received “$81,463 during the last fiscal year” for his services. Smith addresses bigoted postings that Coffey made to the AntiPolygraph.org message board in 2005 under the moniker “TheNoLieGuy4U” and also reveals that Coffey paid $10,000 to settle a 2002 lawsuit by a man who alleged that Coffey “performed a voice-stress-analysis exam on him without permission.” Categories: Polygraph Tags: Patrick T. Coffey, polygraph screening, San Francisco Police Department S.F. Weekly Rips San Francisco Police Department’s Reliance on Polygraphy August 12th, 2009 AntiPolygraph.org 5 comments In a well-researched article, S.F. Weekly reporter Matt Smith critically examines the SFPD’s reliance on polygraphy for applicant screening, despite it being completely discredited among scientists. Those interviewed include retired FBI scientist Dr. Drew Richardson, Professor Stephen Fienberg, who headed a National Academy of Sciences panel that reviewed the scientific evidence on polygraphy, and polygraph operator Patrick Coffey, who’s company conducts polygraph examinations for the SFPD (and who in the past has trolled AntiPolygraph.org’s forums under the moniker, TheNoLieGuy4U). Categories: Polygraph Tags: Patrick T. Coffey, polygraph screening, San Francisco Police Department
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Post by Helen Dagner on Feb 29, 2012 1:23:08 GMT -5
When You Read This Keep In Mind- This Guy Did Not Get Censuring-But Patrick Coffey Did-So If you think Patrick Censuring wasn't Important-It Was~(Polygraph Operator "Dr." Edward I. Gelb Exposed as a Phony Ph.D. Past President of the American Polygraph Association Obtained Degree from an Unaccredited Diploma Mill by George W. Maschke 16 June 2003
Why would one of the most prominent polygraph operators in America falsely pass himself off as a Ph.D.? Edward I. Gelb of Los Angeles isn't saying.
Since 1969, after completing training at the Backster School of Lie Detection in San Diego, Gelb claims to have conducted in excess of 30,000 polygraph examinations. Along with attorney F. Lee Bailey, Gelb appeared on a nationally syndicated television program called "Lie Detector." Gelb has been interviewed about polygraph matters on such national television programs as "Entertainment Tonight," "Geraldo Rivera Live," "CNN Newstand," and CNN's "Larry King Live" show. His high profile clients include O.J. Simpson and John and Patsy Ramsey (parents of JonBenet Ramsey, whose murder remains unsolved). Gelb is a past president, executive director, and chairman of the board of the American Polygraph Association and in 1998 earned the association's Leonarde Keeler Award "for long and distinguished service to the polygraph profession."
Gelb has publicly claimed to hold a Ph.D. degree in psychology since at least 1996. In 1997, he represented himself as a Ph.D. to the highest court in the land -- the United States Supreme Court -- as a co-signer of the Committee of Concerned Social Scientists' amicus brief in U.S. v. Scheffer, where he is listed as "Ed Gelb, Ph.D."
But compelling evidence pieced together by discussants on the AntiPolygraph.org message board indicates that Gelb never earned a doctoral degree from any accredited university. The comprehensive Dissertation Abstracts database (the definitive worldwide collection of doctoral dissertations including over 1.6 million records dating back to 1861) includes no doctoral dissertation by an Edward Gelb.
Gelb did not return phone phone calls and e-mail seeking clarification regarding his educational background. However, AntiPolygraph.org has obtained a copy of Gelb's resume (80 kb PDF) that was included in court documents filed in a civil suit in 2002. Writing about himself in the third person, here is what Gelb says about his educational background: "Dr. Gelb was educated at the University of Southern California, LaSalle University and U.C.L.A.. He has been awarded a bachelor's degree in political science, a master's degree in psychology and a doctorate in psychology."
Gelb doesn't state where or when he earned which degree. Perhaps Gelb would like us to infer that he listed the universities in the same order that he listed his degrees and that he earned a bachelor's degree at USC, a master's degree at LaSalle, and a doctorate at UCLA. But this is certainly not the case. If Gelb had earned his Ph.D. at UCLA (or USC), his dissertation would surely be included in the Dissertation Abstracts database. That leaves LaSalle University. There is a legitimate institution of higher learning called LaSalle University in Philadelphia, but it awarded its first Ph.D. degree of any kind in 2002, years after Gelb began putting the letters "Ph.D." after his name. Ed Gelb didn't earn a doctoral degree there.
No, the "LaSalle University" that awarded Gelb his "doctorate" turns out to be a defunct, unaccredited diploma mill in Mandeville, Louisiana that was owned and operated by one Thomas James Kirk, A.K.A. Thomas McPherson. In 1996, LaSalle was raided by the FBI, and in 1997 Kirk pled guilty to federal fraud charges. (For more on the bogus LaSalle University, see "The swim 'doctor': Credentials of nutrition adviser to U.S. women's team questioned," by Danny Robbins and Margaret Jamison, Houston Chronicle, 7 September 2000 and "Chiropractors with False credentials and diplomas" on ChiroWatch.com.)
Mr. Edward I. Gelb is no Ph.D., and he should stop masquerading as such.
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Post by Helen Dagner on Feb 29, 2012 1:34:39 GMT -5
Now Patrick has this to say--In 2006, former neighbor Patrick Coffey, a licensed polygrapher, called the Kings with information that Larry Wasser, a Southfield polygrapher, had confided to him that Busch had implicated himself in the child killings during a polygraph exam he conducted more than 30 years ago.
Armed with Busch’s name, Detective Sgt. Cory Williams of the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office and Detective Sgt. Garry Gray of the Michigan State Police examined the State Police records, conducted their own investigation and uncovered the circumstantial evidence tying him and Greene to the killings.
Other findings in the State Police report: A tip was called into the Montmorency Sheriff’s Department while Busch was at his family cottage on Ess Lake near Hillman. A woman pleaded with police to go to the cottage, saying she had seen Busch — known to her as a pedophile out on bond — in town with minors. The call came on March 19, 1977, during the time Timothy was missing, which was between March 16 and March 22. There was no indication that law enforcement acted on the tip. A former cellmate of Greene’s told detectives Williams and Gray that Greene said “he got away with killing four kids in the past.” Greene died in prison of a heart attack in 1995. He was 45.
In early 2008, Williams enlisted three independent polygraph examiners to re-examine the original polygraphs of Busch and Greene that led to Busch’s release in the Stebbins investigation. Their findings are blocked out in the documents the King family received.
In April 2008, in an interview with the FBI in New York City, Charles Busch, Christopher Busch’s only living sibling, requested that as a condition for supplying his DNA, family members living in Michigan be allowed to enter a “witness protection-type program.” He also said that later in his life, his father, H. Lee Busch, who died at age 90 in 2002, shredded all of the family documents, including birth certificates.
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Post by Helen Dagner on Feb 29, 2012 13:38:13 GMT -5
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Post by Helen Dagner on Feb 29, 2012 13:47:09 GMT -5
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Post by Helen Dagner on Feb 29, 2012 13:53:32 GMT -5
At one point, I even thought I may have caught Coffey lying about his own practices. Imagine: an SFPD polygraph screener with his pants on fire!by Matt Smith in the August 19-25 issue of SF Weekly, Volume 28, Number 30
In 2002, Coffey was working as a private investigator and was hired by a San Francisco clothing store. The store's tailor, Jesus Guerrero, claimed he had been sexually harassed by a salesman, Reggie Myrick, who denied the accusation. Coffey's job was to determine who was telling the truth. Guerrero sued Coffey, claiming the then–private eye performed a voice-stress-analysis exam on him without permission.
Coffey told me several times during two interviews that he has never used voice stress analysis, which he believes to be less scientific than the polygraph. He said he merely interviewed Guerrero, who mistakenly believed Coffey had performed a voice stress analysis on him.
I was unable to reach Guerrero or his attorney for their version of events. But I did find Myrick.
Coffey "asked me a bunch of questions from years back, up to current events, and I answered truthfully. He said I passed," the salesman said. "My body wasn't hooked up to a lie detector. It was a computer voice analysis test."
Whether Coffey actually performed voice stress analysis, or merely made it seem like he did, the polygrapher did end up paying a $10,000 settlement to Guerrero, according to court records.
In the end, I didn't go away convinced I knew the truth. And I have a feeling I wouldn't have, even if I'd hooked Coffey up to a hit-or-miss lie detector machine.
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Post by Helen Dagner on Feb 29, 2012 14:51:53 GMT -5
Bringing you this background on Patrick,is taking me all over the world-by phone- Today,I'm still in the Netherlands--- I can tell you truthfully at this point -that no one believes they have ever known any one - who's memory has improved like Patricks has ,after having a stroke,some have even said it is impossible~
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Post by Helen Dagner on Feb 29, 2012 15:37:49 GMT -5
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Post by Helen Dagner on Feb 29, 2012 16:11:19 GMT -5
A chance occurrence The case took an unexpected twist in July 2006, when Chris King got a call from a childhood friend whom he hadn’t seen in more than 30 years. Patrick Coffey, now 49, of San Francisco had been a neighbor and playmate of the King boys.
Now a polygraph examiner, Coffey says when Tim went missing it profoundly affected his life. “Much of the reason that I went into this profession was because of what happened to Tim,” he said.
That summer, Coffey gave a presentation to the board of directors of the American Polygraph Association yearly training conference in Las Vegas. Larry Wasser, a former APA vice president and former president of the Michigan Association of Polygraph Examiners, asked if Coffey would be interested in giving the same presentation in Detroit.
Coffey replied that he grew up in Birmingham and said his career ambition was borne out of the tragedy of a neighbor. “Maybe you have heard of the case: the Timmy King case?” he inquired of Wasser.
He said Wasser’s jaw dropped. Then he said: ” ‘Well, I guess I can tell you this now because the attorney who represented the guy is dead. And the guy who did it is dead. I tested the guy who killed your neighbor boy.’ ”
Coffey says Wasser told him it was a private polygraph in a case unrelated to the Oakland County child killings.
Coffey says he was shocked by the revelation.
Michigan law makes it a misdemeanor for polygraph examiners to divulge any information learned as a result of their duties, unless compelled by law. Later that night, Coffey was able to track down Chris King, who was on a business trip. Six months later, Thanksgiving week 2007, responding to an investigative subpoena filed by Wayne County Prosecutor Rob Moran, Coffey took the stand and Wasser was ordered by the court to produce the name of the suspected killer.
In the courtroom, Coffey says he remembers meeting Gray, the State Police sergeant who had announced plans to revisit the case in 2005. After shaking hands, Coffey says Gray remarked to him, “You know, we had a state task force on this for 30 some years and I can’t believe a neighbor boy solved it.” Gray refused to comment for this story.
Reached by phone in his Southfield office, Larry Wasser denied having any involvement in the case. “Pat Coffey’s information is totally bogus,” he said. “I never tested anybody that was involved in the Oakland County child killings.”
Coffey says he was not surprised by Wasser’s denial. “I know he regrets our conversation,” Coffey says.
In retrospect, Coffey adds: “When you think about the odds of this happening, it’s stunning. The Chris Busch lead would have died with Larry Wasser.”
North Fox Island porn ring According to his death certificate, Busch, 27, died from a self-inflicted gunshot to the head on Nov. 20, 1978.
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Post by Helen Dagner on Feb 29, 2012 16:20:35 GMT -5
I will Sum this all up after I finish talking to everyone on my list of contacts-It would just be to confusing to do it with each post-all I'm looking for is the truth-I want to know why-so many people in LE do not believe Patrick story-and each of you should just form your own opinion-There is just something about all of this-that just doesn't ring my bell-like it normally would when someone has this type of revelation-
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Post by Helen Dagner on Mar 1, 2012 0:14:55 GMT -5
In the spring of 2005, on www.antipolygraph.org, a Web site dedicated to scientific debunking of the polygraph, Coffey wrote of prominent polygraph critic George Maschke, a Ph.D. linguist who works as a Farsi translator in the Hague, "I doubt even without the polygraph that you could now meet security criteria to serve in any capacity given your choice to 'work' in socialist Holland, which like France is losing it's idenity [sic] to Islamic Immigration there." In a later post on Maschke's site, Coffey wrote, "George should stay in Holland or some other Socialist nation. He is apparently more comfortable in a nation like that, or France, which has lost its/their respective identities to massive Arab/Islamic immigration." *****Maschke said that during 2005 Coffey lurked on his Web site for some time under various aliases, making caustic comments. "He basically became quite a troll on our message board, and I eventually banned him, and he came back under a variety of monikers," Maschke said, adding, "He's got a lot of biases coming to the table. To have someone with that mentality screening police applicants is inappropriate."
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Post by Helen Dagner on Mar 1, 2012 0:17:43 GMT -5
Smith addresses bigoted postings that Coffey made to the AntiPolygraph.org message board in 2005 under the moniker “TheNoLieGuy4U” and also reveals that Coffey paid $10,000 to settle a 2002 lawsuit by a man who alleged that Coffey “performed a voice-stress-analysis exam on him without permission.”
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