Susie Neilson, Matthias Gafni: ‘It’s like saying a Ouija board or an astrological chart is an investigative tool’: Law enforcement's unreliable tech

"Raymond Whitall figured the technology could help him. It was September 2017, and the 58-year-old prisoner at Salinas Valley State #Prison in Monterey County had accused guards of beating him without justification months earlier as he lay on the floor of the prison’s gym.

The guards said Whitall — who suffered from a chronic disease that affected his hearing and balance — had swung his cane, hitting one of their hands, and that three of them had to physically subdue him. But a prison investigator determined that Whitall’s injuries could not be explained by the guards’ account.

Then Whitall agreed to take an exam called a Computer Voice Stress Analyzer, or #CVSA, that promised to analyze inaudible tremors in his voice and tell trained staff at the prison whether he was telling the truth. …"

#police
https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/law-enforcement-technology-investigations-18756947.php

Stathis and Marinakis' "Shadows into Light": A Failure of Peer-Review https://antipolygraph.org/blog/2020/12/11/stathis-and-marinakis-shadows-into-light-a-failure-of-peer-review/

#NITV #CVSA #pseudoscience

NITV Falsely Claims Peer-Reviewed Study Shows CVSA Is Highly Accurate: https://antipolygraph.org/blog/2020/08/09/nitv-falsely-claims-peer-reviewed-study-shows-cvsa-is-highly-accurate/

#pseudoscience
#voicestress
#CVSA

Charlatan v. Charlatan: NITV Sues E. Gary Baker: https://antipolygraph.org/blog/2020/06/24/charlatan-v-charlatan-nitv-sues-e-gary-baker/

#voicestress
#NITV
#CVSA

Computer Voice Stress Analyzer (#CVSA) Marketer NITV Sued for Fraud: https://antipolygraph.org/blog/2020/05/21/cvsa-marketer-nitv-sued-for-fraud/

#voicestress