Police, prosecutors used junk science to decide 911 callers were liars
Junk science is a huge problem in law enforcement.  Treating lie detectors as canonical, the blood splatter analysis to recreate crime scenes, this kind of stuff.<p>It is especially problematic because police orgs are generally pretty good at adopting new techniques. But unfortunately the marketplace of ideas they have to shop in suffers from overrepresentation of garbage products.  A huge part of law enforcement enhancement is going to involve cleaning this market up.