Interesting to see the utter disbelief of some regarding this subject.
Psychics are a tool for police, just like anything else they use to solve crimes.
There are actually many documented cases where police have used them to a high degree of success, not necessarily for hard evidence, but moreso for helping to explore other avenues not mormally associated with crime solving.
Here is part of a transcript from an interview with the producer of a TV show called Psychic Detectives...
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Question from Alison: have you ever come across fake psychics?
Robyn Hutt: That's an interesting question. We find psychics based on the cases the police department has solved, so it wouldn't be up to us to determine whether they are real or not. In a particular case, they seem to have been helpful -- and that's the way we determine if they're credible or not.
Court TV Host: How do the police departments know and how do you know that it is the psychic's contributions that solved the case?
Robyn Hutt: Ultimately, good old fashioned police work usually solves the case. However, often psychics force the investigation to look in a place it might have overlooked, or go down a path they might not have thought of. But ultimately both the psychics and the police say it's the police that solved the case, and it's the psychics who provided a new light on the case -- in the same way a forensic profiler might provide a new way of looking at a killer, and that helps police to solve the crime. They are one more tool for police investigators to use.
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I don't think anyone should dismiss them outright, as it has been documented, they can and have been a valuable resource for police in the past.
http://www.courttv.com/talk/chat_tra...hics-hutt.html