Many
law enforcement personnel develop a heightened intuitive
capability.This is what instructors within the FBI's Behavioral
Science Unit call intuitive policing. There are countless
documented instances when police officers tune into danger
signals even before they are consciously aware of them.
There are also numerous cases of police following hunches
which lead to important arrests. One example that stands
out in my mind is that of the State Trooper who while
patrolling the New Jersey Turnpike stopped a car on route
to New York City. His reason for stopping the car was
that "something just didn't feel right."
He
pulled the car over when the driving became erratic. After
questioning the driver, this officer's intuition was further
stimulated and a search was made of the car. This resulted
in the discovery of several hundred pounds of explosives
concealed in the trunk. A potential terrorist attack avoided
thanks to the remarkable intuition of one man.
Police
better understand the importance of following intuition
perhaps better than any other group of people. I have
made the argument in the past that intuitive abilities
are diminishing among the general public now that the
survival of the race is not reliant on them. Within the
police force the opposite is true, survival can and does
still partly rely on an officer's intuitive abilities.
It
should surprise no one that police departments occasionally
utilize the services of psychics or intuitive advisors.
The members of the police force recognize the importance
and usefulness of intuitive insights since they rely on
them in many occasions for their own safety. Police often
reach dead ends in investigations. Even with all of the
technological and scientific advances of the last century
less than half of all murder investigations within the
US resulted in an arrest. These percentages fall even
greater for other crimes, for instance burglary and car
theft cases were only cleared or resulted in arrests around
17% of the time.
It's
a common misconception that police departments have unlimited
resources and time to investigate crimes. The truth is
that many law enforcement agencies are understaffed and
overworked. Many crimes go unsolved simply for a lack
of evidence or witnesses. Intuitive advisors can and do
help police departments investigate difficult crimes.
In many cases psychic are consulted to help validate or
invalidate the intuitive impressions of the investigators
themselves. In other cases the investigators simply have
little information to go on and consult a psychic in order
to attempt to generate leads and directions of inquiry.
A
typical scenario involves an investigator offering the
intuitive an overview of the case without providing details
that have been kept from the public. The investigator
purposely leaves out confidential information in order
to provide a method for determining if the psychic is
on the right track. The thinking is usually, if the psychic
can tune into one or two of these details then perhaps
other information that she or he provides will be on target.
Police
departments around the world utilize the services of psychics
and intuitives simply because the police themselves have
learned to relay on intuitive abilities. They have learned
to trust instinct and intuition both for reasons of self
preservation and for offering insights into criminal cases
which lack physical evidence or eyewitness accounts.
