Sherlock
Muse
I had a conversation with a retired law enforcement senior officer this weekend. He retired after more than two decades as a Assistant Chief of Special Operations at a state law enforcement agency and previously worked as a Captain over one of the largest metro detective bureau teams in the U.S.
He told me that in case after case when families who had missing family members or were touched by mysterious crimes used psychics the commitment by detective teams changed. He said that typically from the instant the staff learned that a family was using a psychic the momentum dropped “off the cliff.”
He recalled one missing daughter case where his agency and two others had spent weeks of personal over time and then learned the mother had spent over $7000 paying five different psychic detectives for telephone readings.
“It was a bomb shell” because they hadn’t expected it.
“Suddenly we were being questioned about our motives” about a case that the psychics said was simple and down a different path. And while his team was working over time as public servants the mother had laid down $2000 to talk to one TV psychic for 40 minutes on the phone. He said “We rarely got brought a desert or even a decent cup of coffee but we’re damned unimpressed by someone paying psychics.”
He compared it to a woman believing neighborhood kids dodging in and out as her house burns down by using plastic garden hoses might put out the fire faster because they didn’t have to pull the big heavy hoses and carry the backpacks like those on the fire truck. “The feeling becomes okay, its time to mop up here and let the kids play their games. We’ve got other work to do.”
The man believes his impression of using psychics is common. “Bringing in a psychic is a brash slap in the face to any team.” In his opinion other than outright lying by the family there is no greater insult a family can deliver.
And just for the record --- no, he’s never once heard from “a reliable source” that a psychic solved anything. The few officers around the country who think otherwise are “well below the other 99% who are better experienced, trained, and are a whole lot smarter.”
Enough said.
He told me that in case after case when families who had missing family members or were touched by mysterious crimes used psychics the commitment by detective teams changed. He said that typically from the instant the staff learned that a family was using a psychic the momentum dropped “off the cliff.”
He recalled one missing daughter case where his agency and two others had spent weeks of personal over time and then learned the mother had spent over $7000 paying five different psychic detectives for telephone readings.
“It was a bomb shell” because they hadn’t expected it.
“Suddenly we were being questioned about our motives” about a case that the psychics said was simple and down a different path. And while his team was working over time as public servants the mother had laid down $2000 to talk to one TV psychic for 40 minutes on the phone. He said “We rarely got brought a desert or even a decent cup of coffee but we’re damned unimpressed by someone paying psychics.”
He compared it to a woman believing neighborhood kids dodging in and out as her house burns down by using plastic garden hoses might put out the fire faster because they didn’t have to pull the big heavy hoses and carry the backpacks like those on the fire truck. “The feeling becomes okay, its time to mop up here and let the kids play their games. We’ve got other work to do.”
The man believes his impression of using psychics is common. “Bringing in a psychic is a brash slap in the face to any team.” In his opinion other than outright lying by the family there is no greater insult a family can deliver.
And just for the record --- no, he’s never once heard from “a reliable source” that a psychic solved anything. The few officers around the country who think otherwise are “well below the other 99% who are better experienced, trained, and are a whole lot smarter.”
Enough said.